Difference between WaitForChild and FindFirstChild:

[alphadoggy111 (jos)]

I made a post about this a little while ago. I hope some of that as well as the other replies can help you out.

FindFirstChild vs. WaitForChild

FindFirstChild simply finds the first thing with the given name of the first parameter. Usually you’d use this if you know 100% that the instance already exists when that line of code will run. WaitForChild is different in the fact it will wait for something with the parameter name to exist. It won’t run the rest of the script until that actually exists. Useful if you’re unsure if the specific thing is there or spawned in or replicated quite yet. Here is an example, as my explanation kinda su…