Missing Documentation for Instance:GetActor()

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#1

I stumbled upon this function when coding with CollectionService:

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I was curious to see what it does so I went on the Developer Hub to find out:

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As you can see I searched up “GetActor” with CONTROL + F and didn’t get any results. I even manually searched each function and couldn’t find it. I even had “Show Deprecated” on.

Is this a new feature or did someone forgot to document this?

Upon further review, it seems like this is used for parallel Lua and is not restricted to CollectionService but other Instances.

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#2

Hey! Thanks for bringing this up. As the feature isn’t fully out, we won’t be releasing documentation for it quite yet - hang tight!

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#3

Trying to figure out how this works as we speak, doesn’t seem to do anything as of current. I’d say wait a while for Roblox to give it an implementation
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#4

I found out that Instance:GetActor() has unlinked documentation as seen here.

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#5

Probably related to parallel Lua. Actor model - Wikipedia

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#6

@Maximum_ADHD has posted something regarding it on twitter, it may actually be that its related to parallel Lua. Although the future is unforseeable atm, so take no guesses.

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