Table Descendants Problem

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#1

i have this code:

for y,z in pairs(scanZoneTest) do
		print(z:GetDescendants()[num])
	for i, v in pairs(z:GetDescendants()) do

The issue is that if I do z:GetDescendants()[num] it gets a valid descendant of workspace, but if i do the for loop (for i, v in pairs(z:GetDescendants()) do), all v logs is Camera, not any other descendant. What is wrong?

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#2

Can you post the full script? print(v) only prints the Camera?

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#3

code:

local scanZoneTest = { game.Workspace }

for y,z in pairs(scanZoneTest) do
		print(z:GetDescendants()[num]) -- prints all descendants when indexed
	for i, v in pairs(z:GetDescendants()) do
              print(v) -- only prints Camera out of all descendants in workspace
end
  end
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#4

Works for me, in starter player scripts and in server script service. I’m assuming you do have more than a Camera in the workspace, could you post your workspace?

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#5

spaces

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#7

Is there a reason you’re disjointing things, like scanZoneTest?

Would your use case not allow you to do:

for k, v in pairs(game.Workspace:GetDescendants()) do
    print(v)
end
#8

workspace was only for testing, I am going to add more services to scanZoneTest

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#9

I don’t really know what you are trying to do but! I will possibly think of one thing.

Try this:

for i,v in pairs(scanZoneTest:GetDescendants()) do 
        print(v)
end

if scanZoneTest is a Folder or Model or anything else that should work. Let me not if i got it right, or i’m stupid and i don’t know how to read :rofl:

#10

scanZoneTest is a table lol

also doesnt work

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#11 
local scanZoneTest = { game.Workspace }

for y,z in pairs(scanZoneTest) do
	warn(z:GetDescendants()) -- warns the descendants table (verify your data)
	for i, v in pairs(z:GetDescendants()) do
		print(string.format("Found Descendant \"%s\" [Path: %s]", tostring(v), v:GetFullName()))
	end
end

Works just fine for me. Maybe show us what it’s outputting in a screenshot?

#12

tablewarn
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#13

Didn’t know this was a plugin; I’m not sure if that will change the behavior or not. Let me test and I’ll get back to you.

#14

Nope, it didn’t change the behavior for me at all.
What else does your plugin do before this is printing? Because this is a really weird issue in my opinion.

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#15

I was doing debugging and switched some of the variables and tables around and it started working. Not rlly sure what i did but hey, at least it works

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