Improve SceneTreeEditor usability

- Mark contextually relevant node
- Remember/Clear selection as appropriate
- Scroll to marked/selected node

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/editor/editor_properties.cpp b/editor/editor_properties.cpp
index b7380c9fc2..c6a6163a4e 100644
--- a/editor/editor_properties.cpp
+++ b/editor/editor_properties.cpp
@@ -2751,7 +2751,15 @@ void EditorPropertyNodePath::_node_assign() {
 		add_child(scene_tree);
 		scene_tree->connect("selected", callable_mp(this, &EditorPropertyNodePath::_node_selected));
 	}
-	scene_tree->popup_scenetree_dialog();
+
+	Variant val = get_edited_property_value();
+	Node *n = nullptr;
+	if (val.get_type() == Variant::Type::NODE_PATH) {
+		n = get_base_node()->get_node_or_null(val);
+	} else {
+		n = Object::cast_to<Node>(val);
+	}
+	scene_tree->popup_scenetree_dialog(n, get_base_node());
 }
 
 void EditorPropertyNodePath::_update_menu() {
@@ -3184,7 +3192,6 @@ void EditorPropertyResource::_resource_changed(const Ref<Resource> &p_resource)
 			add_child(scene_tree);
 			scene_tree->connect("selected", callable_mp(this, &EditorPropertyResource::_viewport_selected));
 		}
-
 		scene_tree->popup_scenetree_dialog();
 	}
 }