Model doesn't load any children when they are in folders

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#1

I have a model that is used in a generation system. It usually works completely fine and loads in well, but as soon as i added a new folder inside and put all of the walls of the room inside it, now it cant detect any of the children in the model using :GetChildren(), why is this? its super confusing and im wondering if this is a bug, or im stupid.

Code Snippet:

local genroom = pickroom()

	if not genroom then
		return
	end
	
	print(genroom) -- testing
	
	for i,v in pairs(genroom:GetChildren()) do
		warn(v.Name, genroom) -- never warns anything
	end

prints nothing except the room name - print(genroom), and an infinite yield error from code below simply defining a folder which i know 100% exits: Infinite yield possible on 'Intersection:WaitForChild("DoorAreas")
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Extra Note: This happens no matter which room i do it on.

Any help would be great.

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#2

While the room is like this, I can’t set it’s parent either: The Parent property of Intersection is locked, current parent: NULL, new parent GeneratedRooms

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#3

I may be slightly ignorant to your issue, however, folders are not exempt from being “Children”.

“Children” are instances, which folders are also of that BaseClass. Therefore :GetChildren() will grab the folders, and not the children inside.

You have two solutions:

  1. Get the children, then loop through the children and do some logic with any children within the folders via :GetChildren() again.

  2. Use the :GetDescendents() method which will get ALL children, including the children of the children. (If that makes sense)

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#4

Yeah, ik, thats what im doing later on:
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What i was doing earlier was just a test to see if ANYTHING loaded, which nothing does.

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#5

print(genroom) prints only the name? like a string?

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#6

What do you mean by nothing loading???

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#7

yeah it just prints the name of it, works the same as .Name (well idk if its a string but it does print the name of it)

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#8

can you double check if the pickroom() function does not return a .name?

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#9 
print(genroom)
	
	if genroom:IsA("Model") then
		print("model")
	end

Result:

20:29:14.043  Intersection  -  Server - GenerationModule:146
  20:29:14.043  model  -  Server - GenerationModule:149

It’s a model.

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#10

okay, what i want you to do, test it in the game, and see the generator model, try to see if there are stuff missing on it. if it is, you might want to anchor everything in the model.

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#11

The parts and folders inside just aren’t able to be accessed, like they dont exist.

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#12

is the script a local script or a server script

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#13

It is a server script.

word limit

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#14

weird, can you try to test it and check on the explorer if there are stuff missing in the model?

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#15

I can’t really check because i cant set it’s parent lol.

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#16

what i mean is play the game in studio, go to the explorer and see if the model has parts missing, you can switch to server view if the model is in serverstorage or something like that

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#17

well, as for the non-cloned room in ReplicatedStorage, its fine.
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but yeah, i can’t check the cloned room.

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#18

weird, this isnt a problem with your script, its more of the set-up.if the cloned room isnt really in workspace then it means its being deleted by something, either its somehow falling out of the map (consider anchoring everything in the model just to see) or see if a script is interfering with it

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#19

Yeah just tested and everything was already anchored, stuff like this really ticks me off, how does this even happen for such a weird change too.

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#20

you might want to re check your pickroom() function, can you send it here? (cause your pick room function is the only suspect other than roblox engine)

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