Why wont GetChildren Get ALL the Children?

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7 years ago

Edited by BlueTaslem 7 years ago

Basically my issue is that the GetChildren function seems to only be grabbing just a few of the parts in the folder.

01print("Intalizing Eat Script")
02 
03local ReplicatedStorge = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
04local eatEvent = game.ReplicatedStorage.EatEvent
05 
06local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
07local character = player.Character
08 
09local stars = workspace.Food.Stars
10 
11local running = true
12local ticks = 1
13 
14if character:findFirstChild("Humanoid") then
15    local playerLocation = character.HumanoidRootPart.Position
16 
17    -- Main Loop        
18    while running do
19        -- Stars Variable
20        local stars = workspace.Food.Stars:GetChildren()
21 
22        -- Loop Through Parts
23        for i,Part in pairs(stars) do
24            local magnitude = (playerLocation - Part.Position).magnitude
25 
26            if magnitude <= 300 then
27                print(Part.Name, " - " ,magnitude)
28                eatEvent:FireServer(Part)
29 
30            end
31 
32        end
33        wait(1/ticks)
34    end
35 
36    print("End Loop")
37 
38end
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Why did you post a pastebin rather than using the site's Lua converter? PreciseLogic 271 — 7y

GetChildren() will return an array of ALL of the parent's children. I do not think it's the method that has the problem, rather how you're using it. My guess is some of the children do not follow your conditional. You can always print() to have a 'visual' of all the children. PreciseLogic 271 — 7y

http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=API:Class/Instance/GetDescendants TheeDeathCaster 2368 — 7y

Edited to replace pastebin link with code BlueTaslem 18071 — 7y

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