COMMUNITY QUESTION

Script that gets rid of the workspace?

Asked Dec 31, 2018250 views3 answers

Hello. I need a script that gets rid of the workspace in my game. Something that gets the children of a workspace, and then deletes all the children when the game is launched. Any scripts?

AnonymousDec 31, 2018

3 answers

To iterate over all children of Workspace, destroying each, we'll use:

The generic for statement
The ipairs function
The workspace global variable
The Instance:GetChildren method
The Instance:Destroy method
The Instance:IsA method.

for _, child in ipairs(workspace:GetChildren()) do
	if not child:IsA("Terrain") then
		child:Destroy()
	end
end

Note our use of Instance:IsA to check if the child is a Terrain, which cannot be destroyed and throws an error upon an attempt.

AnonymousDec 31, 2018Edited Dec 31, 2018Permalink

4 comments

Pcall should not be used in this case, the only reason an exception would be thrown when attempting to destroy a part is if you're destroying the Terrain instance. It's better to just check the class type using the :IsA method.

AnonymousDec 31, 2018#

I think destroying characters may also cause an error

AnonymousDec 31, 2018#

Destroying characters does not throw an error.

AnonymousDec 31, 2018#

Just checked, my bad.

AnonymousDec 31, 2018#

Normally, I'd recommend to use the :ClearAllChildren() method, but that won't work properly with Workspace as the Terrain Instance may not be deleted. So instead, simply loop through the children and delete them.

for _, v in pairs(workspace:GetChildren()) do
    if not v:IsA("Terrain") then
        v:Destroy()
    end
end

AnonymousDec 31, 2018Edited Jan 1, 2019Permalink

2 comments

You'd have to use Instance:GetChildren to get the children

AnonymousDec 31, 2018#

Fixed

AnonymousJan 1, 2019#

Dunno why you'd want to do this but ok..

for _, child in ipairs(workspace:GetChildren()) do
    if not child:IsA("Terrain") then
        child:Destroy()
    end
end

AnonymousJan 1, 2019Permalink

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