Can i find a part ANYWHERE in the workspace?

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#1

What i mean is letrs say i wanna find a part called “The Part”
I CAN do “Workspace:GetChildren” or whatever in a for loop, but thats only gonna look for the part in just the workspace alone
But i want to find it even if its 10 folders deep inside workspace
basically maybe “The Part” is in a folder, that is in a folder, that is in a folder, ect
I want to still be able to access that part, even when its location moves.
IF you understnad what i mean, Thanks for the help

#2

Then you would use :GetDescendants()

But, it will loop through every single thing in your game if it is started from the workspace.

You might want to learn about CollectionService:

Or maybe just use ObjectValues instead of paths:

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#3

GetDecendants() Worked!
I never knew exactly what it did, just thought it was the same as getchildren()
Also my example isint what im actually doing, im actually looking in a folder, so its not laggy at all!

#4

Bruh,u dont need a loop

U can just do this

If game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(-- part name) then

End

Unless it is a cloned model-- then use the loop.(no choice)

#5

Might be good to add that you’d have to pass true as a second argument in :FindFirstChild() as without it it won’t check deeper than just the children of the target.

Passing the second argument “true” will perform the search recursively

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#6

If you have streaming on, the part will not load unless you’re inside streaming range. Other than that you should be able to access every part in the workspace.

#7

They said they wanted to find it even if it wasn’t parented to workspace by “ten folders parented to each other inside of workspace” so no. They’d have to use a loop to find their part…

(NVM you were right. I’ll just edit my post ig)

#8

So if you did game.Workspace:FindFirstCHild(partName, true) it would check through all descendants for the part???

#9 
local part = workspace:FindFirstChild(partName,true)
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#10

Correct.

The arguments for FindFirstChild are as follows:
name? : string
recursive? : boolean

Recursive just means that it looks through all children recursively (looks within the children of the current child, etc etc)

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