diff --git a/Gems/SceneProcessing/Code/Source/Generation/Components/MeshOptimizer/MeshOptimizerComponent.cpp b/Gems/SceneProcessing/Code/Source/Generation/Components/MeshOptimizer/MeshOptimizerComponent.cpp
index e3eb617601..a5d5510f8a 100644
--- a/Gems/SceneProcessing/Code/Source/Generation/Components/MeshOptimizer/MeshOptimizerComponent.cpp
+++ b/Gems/SceneProcessing/Code/Source/Generation/Components/MeshOptimizer/MeshOptimizerComponent.cpp
@@ -493,7 +493,8 @@ namespace AZ::SceneGenerationComponents
         // Copy node attributes
         AZStd::apply([](const auto&&... nodePairView) {
             ((AZStd::for_each(begin(nodePairView), end(nodePairView), [](const auto& nodePair) {
-                auto& [originalNode, optimizedNode] = nodePair;
+                auto& originalNode = nodePair.first;
+                auto& optimizedNode = nodePair.second;
                 optimizedNode->CloneAttributesFrom(&originalNode.get());
             })), ...);
         }, std::tuple {