How to reference all of one type of asset in a parent?
Im making a script that will be referencing a brick that includes many, many audios. I know theres a way to reference everything thats an audio, but I have no clue how to write it. I dont know if this counts as a request so I apologize... but how would i rewrite this? All I want is for the script to get every child of a certain set parent that is an audio, and stop it from playing.
local b = game.Workspace.musicbrick b.audio1:Stop() b.audio2:Stop() b.audio3:Stop() b.audio4:Stop() b.audio5:Stop() b.audio6:Stop() b.audio7:Stop()
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So you'd have to loop through the sounds and check whether the current child is a sound or not by using :IsA("Sound"). So in the script you'd write this:
for i,v in pairs(game.Workspace.musicbrick:GetChildren()) do -- Loops through the children
if v:IsA("Sound") then -- Checks whether it's a sound or not
v:Stop() -- Stops the sound
end
end
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For this you gotta use tables! A table (or you can call it an array) is pretty much a variable that can store multiple values, and such as variables tables can have different types of values (integer, string, boolean, number.....).
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A table is assigned like this t = {1, true, "runs"} its like that, it stores different values, and to get those values you gotta do for example t[the index of the value] so for example t[3] is "runs" in the table we assigned earlier, now after storing these audio objects in our table, it will be boring to mention them one by one, so we gotta loop tem, and loop te memebers of a table we gotta use an in pairs loop. I probarly not gonna be good at explaining this so here
you go
local b = game.Workspace.musicbrick
local audios = {b.audio1,
b.audio2,
b.audio3,
b.audio4,
b.audio5,
b.audio6,
b.audio7}
--this is the table we assigned
for i, v in pairs(audios) do
-- this is how an in pairs loop look like, v is gonna be the table's member that is looping each time
v:Stop()
end
Now we can make this way efficent by doing
for i,v in pairs(game.Workspace.musicbrick:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("Sound") then -- Checks whether if the given object is a certain classname, so it sees if v is a sound
v:Stop()
end
end
And that's it! sorryf or the poor explanation, i got a perfect explantion here