WaitForChild to search a "part" or "BasePart" is detected as "Instance" not "Part" nor "BasePart"

[ImaAetherangel (Aether)]

• Descriptive title: So when you try to use WaitForChild function to search part, it detected as an instance not a part. So you need to specify the variable out like Local part:Part = workspace:WaitForChild('Part')

• When it started happening: Today

• Screenshots and videos of the bug:
  

  
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• Any help is appreciated

[Dev_Peashie]

But type and typeof is not the class. If you want to check what type of class would be:

local thing = workspace:WaitForChild("A_Part")
warn(thing.ClassName) -- output Part

[ImaAetherangel (Aether)]

yea it would show as a part. but when you actually store it on a variable it detects as instance

[Dev_Peashie]

But that depends on what your function is returning isnt?

local thing = workspace:WaitForChild("A_Part")

local function getBullet(toRead)
	return toRead.ClassName
end
print(getBullet(thing))

[ImaAetherangel (Aether)]

its not a function its

local getbullet = bulletfolder:WaitForChild(script.Name)
print(getbullet.ClassName)

Restarting studio has no effect

[Dev_Peashie]

I see what you mean now. But its not happening to me:

I think its an issue with your studio yes.

EDIT:
Ah my bad, I didnt notice you are using script.Name for the WaitForChild(), but thats intented I guess, I mean, the engine while you are scripting doesnt know yet what class is the thing inside the variable.

[ImaAetherangel (Aether)]

well, thats unfortunate. i think i might reinstall my studio

[ImaAetherangel (Aether)]

ahh… my bad… thats the whole problem. Thanks for the help!