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..
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.
I didnt really understand some of that but it did help.
You can not findfirstchild of another firstfirdchild
So what we do is setting findchild1 to the first find child
Ugh im having typos on wrriting findfirstchild sorry xd
And, if findchild1 is an object (Not nil) then we set findchild2 to the findchild you wanted to do after
Sorry for not explaining my fault
"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
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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.
Thanks i'll definetely look into that!