From f1d9652b69d9bcbcbecc57ac50afc40dd1841eed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cameron <cameo221@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 01:53:46 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] small potential fix

---
 Assets/LDtkUnity/CHANGELOG.md                 | 1 +
 Assets/LDtkUnity/Runtime/Fields/LDtkFields.cs | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Assets/LDtkUnity/CHANGELOG.md b/Assets/LDtkUnity/CHANGELOG.md
index 137ebf304..3218dfa6a 100644
--- a/Assets/LDtkUnity/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/Assets/LDtkUnity/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 - Updated samples to 1.4.1
 - Updated docs to instruct that a texture should be RGBA32 compression
 - Made the LDtkComponentLayer ordered before the LDtkIid component 
+- Fixed a possible exception during initialization of LDtkFields
 
 ### Breaking Changes
 - Removed the "De-parent in Runtime" feature from the project importer
diff --git a/Assets/LDtkUnity/Runtime/Fields/LDtkFields.cs b/Assets/LDtkUnity/Runtime/Fields/LDtkFields.cs
index f7a3d9948..e41f4e1f7 100644
--- a/Assets/LDtkUnity/Runtime/Fields/LDtkFields.cs
+++ b/Assets/LDtkUnity/Runtime/Fields/LDtkFields.cs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ namespace LDtkUnity
     public partial class LDtkFields : MonoBehaviour
     {
         internal const string PROPERTY_FIELDS = nameof(_fields);
-        [SerializeField] private LDtkField[] _fields;
+        [SerializeField] private LDtkField[] _fields = Array.Empty<LDtkField>();
         
         private readonly Dictionary<string, int> _keys = new Dictionary<string, int>();