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How can i find multiple children of a child using FindFirstChild?
So I know how to find ONE child of a parent like so
game.Workspace.Example:FindFirstChild("Child1")
But what if I need to find multiple children of a child?? would it be,
game.Workspace.Example:FindFirstChild("Child1").Child2:FindFirstChild("Child3")
?
This has been giving me a headache and the wiki is no help..
Please help asap..
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FindFirstChild cannot be used to find multiple children. If you're trying to execute certain things for multiple objects, for loop with pairs ( http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=Global_namespace/Basic_functions#pairs ) used with :GetChildren ( http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=API:Class/Instance/GetChildren ) might help. GmDTheSine 70 — 6y
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Thanks i'll definetely look into that! EtherealTrin 45 — 6y
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You can not include 2 events in the same line. Here would be what you're looking for....
local findchild1 = nil
local findchild 2 = nil
local findchild1 = game.Workspace.Example:FindFirstChild ("Part1")
if findchild 1 ~= nil then
local findchild 2 = findchild1:FindFirstChild ("Part2")
end
This way, you would findfirstchild of the first object, and if its not nil, find the second into the variable findchild2.
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I didnt really understand some of that but it did help. EtherealTrin 45 — 6y
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You can not findfirstchild of another firstfirdchild Aimarekin 345 — 6y
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So what we do is setting findchild1 to the first find child Aimarekin 345 — 6y
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Ugh im having typos on wrriting findfirstchild sorry xd Aimarekin 345 — 6y
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And, if findchild1 is an object (Not nil) then we set findchild2 to the findchild you wanted to do after Aimarekin 345 — 6y
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Sorry for not explaining my fault Aimarekin 345 — 6y
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"FindFirstChild" is a function, not an event, and you *can* use it multiple times in a single line - but one shouldn't because (as you showed) one should always check to see if :FindFirstChild returned 'nil' or not first. @melissa: If you are certain that the object will be there, you don't need to use FindFirstChild at all, ex: print(game.Workspace.MyFolder.MyModel.MyPart) --is perfectly valid chess123mate 5873 — 6y