Dynamic Recursive Search

[Soldrion]

Goal: Find a way to make a tagging system that a script can use as a reference point for variables

Issue: It’s not as much as an issue as it is a quality of life script idea.

What solutions have I tried? I have not necessarily tried anything in full, I want to bounce ideas around with the community.

First I must explain what it is I am attempting to accomplish. I have a large game, it is way too complex for one developer to make in any reasonable amount of time. I have many different file locations and many scripts scanning for certain objects in those files. Let’s say I have a frame with some buttons or something, and move it from one spot to another in the directories. I might have 4 or 5 scripts referencing that frame at the old spot when it is no longer there.

I have two ideas to fix this.

Idea 1: use either a Tag or a String value to mark a frame or whatever as what is essentially a UUID. I then scan the entire game for said UUID, and whatever comes back is the location for the variable in the script that has it as a dependency.

Idea 2: Perhaps use UniqueID, but I noticed that some objects don’t have one, and I don’t know how to access it from a script.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you all!

[Manly_Torch]

You could just use CollectionService tags.

[Soldrion]

This seems like the most straightforward solution. Probably going to mark this as solution, but I’ll wait until the end of today to see if anyone has said anything else.

[Yarik_superpro (Yarik)]

referance to a part is already unique;
You are trying to reinvent the wheel Unless you are working with this instances in other scripts just use arrays
To tag instance:

table.insert(Instances,Ins)

[Soldrion]

The problem comes with referencing the part in the first place

[Soldrion]

for example, what if I had 4 scripts referencing MenuFrame and I wanted to move it without worry of re-typing the declarations

[Yarik_superpro (Yarik)]

Add tag to that or use ModuleScript that stores referance to it for example.
If you are using tags you can use CollectionService:GetTagged() to grab instances with specific tag

[Soldrion]

This. Thank you @Manly_Torch and Yarik.