How can I get children inside children?

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#1

I don’t really know how to explain what I’m trying to do so I’m gonna make a little diagram.

I - The parent
I - The child inside the parent
I - The child in the child inside the parent, I want to get to this, nothing else.

Is it even possible?

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#3

you have to get the descendants of the object.

instance:GetDescendants()

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#5

You can use for loops:

for i, v in ipairs(script.Parent:GetChildren()) do
    for k, l in ipairs(v:GetChildren()) do
        print("Wrong category")
    end
end
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#6

Yes, it is very possible.

For the parent: use script.Parent.

For the child inside the parent: use script.Parent:FindFirstChild(child name).

For the child in the child in the parent:
use script.Parent:FindFirstChild(child name):FindFirstChild(second child name) .

If you need every child/descendant instead of just one, use :GetChildren() or :GetDescendants() instead of :FindFirstChild()

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#7

Very funny, Im gonna try this anyway, thanks for the help im gonna delete this post

#9

script.Parent.Child.Child? is that too difficult?

You could also put them in a van but thats out of the scope of this discussion.

#10

please reword this, i beg of you…

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#11

i was like “the hec?” until i realized children is a thing in coding

i thought it was like that games of “get eaten by X” but asking how to make it so kids join or somthing

#12

You can just edit the category, press the pencil next to th title then change the category to scripting help

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#13

For some reason I never knew that

#14

Yes, this is very possible.
You can get the child of an instance by just using a “.”, for example:

    Script.Parent.Humanoid.Animator

would get the Animator of whatever character the script is parented to.

#15

I would but I don’t know how, that’s just how you say it in scripting talk

#16

‘How to loop through children within children’

#17

They mean how to loop within both of the children.

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#18

yo, with this script you can only take one child of child.