So what I mean by this is how would I find all the children named 'THIS' in this model? And if it is called 'THIS' execute this function?
I know how to find all the children of a part but don't know anything past that...
local children = model
for i = 1, #children do
--if childs names is THIS then
--rest of code
Of course, if there is a more efficient way that would be appreciated.
Here I suppose you know how to get the children of the model already so i will just leave that for you to write, store it in the table i named "children"
for i =1,#children do
wait()
if children[i].Name == "this" then--your if statement
print("this is found at index"..i)--this code will run if the part is named this, and shows you the index of the part in the table
else
print("this is not found at index"..i)--this code will run if the part is not named this, and shows you the index of the part in the table
end
end
Alternatively with the in pairs loop, both will work
for i,v in pairs(children) do
if v.Name == "this" then
print("this is found at index"..i)
else
print("this is not found at index"..i)
end
end
But what if there are multiple instances named 'this'?
I wanted to find a specific 'this' which has a child called 'NEWTHIS'.
If there are say, 2 parts named "this", and they are the first and third part of the model, then it will print it out two times and say this is found at index 1 and this is found at index 2
CORRECTION for my above comment, it will print out this is found at index 1 and this is found at index 3, if you want to make sure "this" has a child named "newthis" just add another if statement
use the method FindFirstChild(), if you dont know what that is here is the wiki for it: https://www.robloxdev.com/api-reference/function/Instance/FindFirstChild
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Well your comment is correct already
Isn't there something like workspace _,v in pairs do? Could I use that method, and how would I?
Also if I am using this method how would I interact with that specific child?
the in pairs functions loops through all the children of the model, if you already got the table of the model's children already your code will work fine
How would I set that child as a local?
what does that mean