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How to find something inside of the game path?
Ok, so I basically want to search through everything inside of game for an object named "CorrectModel." I have an idea of how to do this:
for i,v in pairs(game:GetChildren()) do
for i,v in pairs(v:GetChildren()) do
for i,v in pairs(v:GetChildren()) do
for i,v in pairs(v:GetChildren()) do
-- Am I right?
end
end
end
end
Is this correct? If so, what else should I do?
Thanks!!
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You shouldn't nest for loops "deep enough".
If you had 12 nested loops, it's possible the model you're looking for is 13 deep.
You want to actually search the whole tree, which can be done recursively.
Luckily, :FindFirstChild can already search for names recursively.
local model = workspace:FindFirstChild("CorrectModel", true)
This will find model no matter where it's nested inside of workspace.
To manually write this code yourself, you need to write a recursive function:
function search(model)
-- if you give it what you're looking for, you're done!
if model.Name == "CorrectModel" then
return model
end
-- Otherwise, you have to search through its children
for _, child in pairs(model:GetChildren()) do
local foundInChild = search(child)
if foundInChild then
return foundInChild
end
end
end
local model = search(workspace)