✓ ANSWER ACCEPTED

How would I get the children of the children I got?

Asked Jun 17, 2015266 views2 answers

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

AnonymousJun 17, 2015Edited Jun 17, 2015

2 answers

✓ Accepted answer

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

AnonymousJun 17, 2015Edited Jun 17, 2015Permalink

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 )

AnonymousJun 17, 2015Permalink

This discussion is preserved as it was. New answers, comments, and votes are closed.