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How to use Find First Child?

Asked Aug 22, 2016291 views2 answers

I know how FindFirstChild works and all but say you did you had a part in workspace called part2

would you do game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(part2) OR game.Workspace:FindFirstChild("part2")

I forgot if you add a " or ' so yeah im confused also what do you also put or not put on waitforchild?

AnonymousAug 22, 2016

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FindFirstChild requires a string. This string is the name of the child you're looking for.

local part = workspace:FindFirstChild("Part")

If FindFirstChild doesn't find anything it will return nil. So if part doesn't exist in the above example, part will equal nil.

WaitForChild works about the same way, but it stops the script until it finds the child.

local part = workspace:WaitForChild("Part")

Now part will never equal nil, but if part doesn't exist the script will stop running. WaitForChild is normally used at the beginning of scripts, and used to wait for things that might not have loaded yet.

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AnonymousAug 22, 2016Edited Aug 22, 2016Permalink

I recommend using

game.Workspace.Part2

AnonymousAug 22, 2016Permalink

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Why?

AnonymousAug 23, 2016#

Well if you don't know how to use FindFirstChild:

AnonymousAug 26, 2016#

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