From 3766488114fbe5d60847aac7878f1499d200fe95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wojtek Figat <wojtek@figat.pl>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 18:35:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix crash when loading empty json for Variant structure data

---
 Source/Editor/Utilities/VariantUtils.cs | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Source/Editor/Utilities/VariantUtils.cs b/Source/Editor/Utilities/VariantUtils.cs
index 8cca826ff..6bebfdb5f 100644
--- a/Source/Editor/Utilities/VariantUtils.cs
+++ b/Source/Editor/Utilities/VariantUtils.cs
@@ -513,7 +513,9 @@ namespace FlaxEditor.Utilities
                 {
                     // Json
                     var json = stream.ReadStrAnsi(-71);
-                    return FlaxEngine.Json.JsonSerializer.Deserialize(json, type);
+                    if (json.Length != 0)
+                        return FlaxEngine.Json.JsonSerializer.Deserialize(json, type);
+                    return Activator.CreateInstance(type);
                 }
                 return null;
             }