How would I get the children of the children I got?
I know it sounds weird, and perhaps a little wrong, but you understand, right? ..right? If you don't, here is a full explanation. Ok, so I got the children of people, now for each child (of people) I want to scan them individually for a part called "torso"
So in other words,
I want to get the children(people's children) of the children that I got(the people). Get it now? Here's the script.
for _,v in pairs(workspace.People:GetChildren())do
for _,w in pairs(v:GetChildren())do
if w.Name=="Torso"then
nodes[#nodes+1]=w
end
end
end
2 answers
Just do another for loop inside it.
This will cycle through the children you already got, and then cycle through their children.
for _,v in pairs(workspace.People:GetChildren())do
for _,w in pairs(v:GetChildren())do
for _,z in pairs(w:GetChildren()) do
if z.Name=="Torso"then
nodes[#nodes+1]=z
end
end
end
end
What you need is recursion.
The short answer is to have a function and call the function from inside it, like so:
local allParts = {}
function recurringSearch(parent)
for i, v in pairs(parent:GetChildren()) do --all the parents children
if v:IsA("BasePart") then --if some kind of part
table.insert(allParts, v) --put it in the table
end
recurringSearch(v) --run the function with the current objects children
end
end
recurringSearch(workspace) --start the function and feed it workspace
This code fills up the table allParts with every part in workspace. This works no matter how many "parents" an object has.
So in your case:
function recur( parent )
for _,v in pairs( parent:GetChildren() )do
if v.Name == "Torso" then
nodes[ #nodes+1 ] = v
end
end
end
recur( workspace.People )