Does waitforchild("model") wait until all children of the model are loaded?

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#1

Does waitforchild(“model”) wait until all children of the model are loaded?

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#2

Well yes, waitforchild(“Model”) waits for the model as total, so then all the children of the model should be loaded as well

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#3

Another quick question, how do I get rid of this stupid chat window?
https://gyazo.com/917cd82346490bac78f46c1bdf5ef8f6

It blocks the entire view, and I see no button to turn it off.

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#4

There should be the chat icon in the top bar like always i think? unless you messed with the startergui while testing

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#5

There isn’t, and I didn’t mess with any GUI except for my own which does not affect any other GUI’s.

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#6

Hmm, weird, could you go into test and show me a screenshot of your explorer window (mainly the bottom part of explorer)

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#7

I restarted my client tests and it works now. Must of been some bug.

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#8

Okay, good, Good luck further on your game!

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#9

Wait for child,Waits for child specific so it only waits until the model has loaded it isn’t sure that all child of Model are loaded or not for eg

game.Players.LocalPlayer:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Cash

Can also give error sometime because of Cash not loaded

THIS IS TOTALLY A EXCEPTIONAL CASE AND HAPPENS WHEN CLIENT RUNS BEFORE SERVER SCRIPT FINISHES THE CHANCES OF THIS ERROR HAPPENING IS RELATIVELY LOW

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#10

I’ve had my script error 1/3 times so far. Perhaps I’ll just add a wait on the server script for loading purposes.

Is there some sort of preloading mechanism that exists that can load all models in a game?

#11

You need to wait on every line

game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Model"):WaitForChild("stuff")--and so on
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#12

What if I have like 30 parts inside one model, is there a way to loop through it?

#13

You could do
repeat wait() until #model:GetDescendants() == expecteddescendants

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#14

Till i know you need to wait only when game has started like in pre function,So if you are doing some late or after some time then there isn’t a need of wait for child you can also just add these lines at 1st in every script

repeat wait() until game:IsLoaded()
or
game.Loaded:Wait()

You can also use Index method:

#15

So what you’re saying is that if I just wait a few seconds it’s guaranteed to load?

#16

Well No i mean you should wait until all object are loaded in either way i would highly prefer @index_nil way though

#17

I don’t believe this is correct, otherwise (for example) doing game:WaitForChild("Workspace") may yield until the entire workspace had loaded with all descendants, which is not the behaviour.

Roblox instances are streamed in from a top-down model - i.e. if you have a model with 20 parts, and 1 part has a Light inside of it, the model will load, then the 20 parts, then last the Light will load in. It would not be safe to do workspace:WaitForChild("Model").LightPart.Light.

Edit: Useful post to clarify this for you :slight_smile:

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#18

That isn’t true, if you wait for just the Model it will only wait for the existence of that Model to appear, it doesn’t care about its children.

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#19

Can you please remove that answer as a solution? Because it isn’t true, WaitForChild("Model") does not wait for all the model’s children to be loaded.

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#20

Handling misinformation one step at a time, no it does not.

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