How do i get all children

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#1

hey everybody :smiley:
Is there a way that I can get all children and change their properties at once?
and how would i go about doing this?

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#2 
local Children = game.workspace.Model:GetChildren()

for i = 1, #Children do
   Children[i].Color = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0)
end
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#3

Just adding on to the previous solution on this thread, here is the API reference, just thought it could be handy for you

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#4

to get children you do

stuff=thing:GetChildren()

to do stuff with them you do this

for i = 1, #stuff do
   stuff[i]---
end

you must use

  stuff[i]

so script will know with what to work

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#5

Actually instead of naming it as thing you can name it as Instance :slight_smile: Just saying btw.

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#6

yeah ik but it doesnt seem to work since im enabling beams from a script but it is inside a charactermodel do scripts run in charactermodels?

#7

Scripts do run as long as they are a descendant of workspace too, so I donā€™t really know why its not working unless I can see the code.

#8

local Children = script.Parent.ReentryFlames:GetChildren()

for i = 1, #Children do

Children[i].Enabled = true

end

#9

Are you sure the property Enabled isnā€™t changing?

Also try using this loop, if its not working still.

local Children = script.Parent.ReentryFlames:GetChildren()

for i,v in pairs(Children) do
   v.Enabled = true
end
#10

its not working however the origins of the script is in the startercharacter in starterplayer could that be why?

#11

Oh. Yeah, I would recommend it removing from there, as they only work if they are a descendant of ServerScriptService or Workspace.

You could place it in the model too, if it meets your requirements?

#12

place it in what model. however it already is in the startercharacter

#13

Check where it is. If it isnā€™t workspace and itā€™s a workspace-type entity then it wont work or show up. Iā€™m pretty sure a ā€œbeamā€ instance needs to be in workspace for it to work.

Likewise what @WaterJamesPlough said, Check the value. Is it active when you set it to active. Is it not when you set it to not?

What are the ā€œchildrenā€ can you show us an image or some sort of visualisation of the explorer. And the children the script is trying to access

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#14

Do you want to get the children of children as well? If so do this:

All Decendants Script 
for _, v in ipairs (script.Parent.ReentryFlames:GetDecendants()) do 
   if (v:IsA("Beam"))  then
       v.Enabled = true
  end
end

The ones above arent working because there trying to set all children, not just beams.

#15

You canā€™t call an instance as a function. This will error.

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#16

Actually, why did you edit the post? It was fine when it was :GetDescendants method on the instance itself.

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#17

Oops. I deleted more than I meant to lol. Sorry! Iā€™ll fix it.