What is the difference between GetChildren() and GetDescendants()?
I just wanted to know cause I really don’t see a difference
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GetChildren() gets the children and GetDescendants() gets everything inside the object
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:GetChildren() will only retrieve the Children of the object you’ve ran this method in, and not the children of the children of your object (matrix)
:GetDescendants() will return the children of the object you ran this method on as well as the children of the children of said object.
If you have a Folder1 with another Folder2 inside and run :GetChildren() on Folder1, you’ll only get returned with Folder2. However, if you run :GetDescendants() you’ll get Folder2 and any children inside of Folder2.
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lets say you have models inside a workspace in studios, there are multiple models and inside workspace each model have 5 parts inside them. Get children will only get the models. Get descendants get the models AND the 5 parts. Gives you an idea?
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https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/Instance/GetDescendants
Did you search before asking? This is literally described in it’s DevHub page
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Well you see I didn’t understand it so I decided to ask
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they speak too fancy on the creator hub.