Whats the difference between GetService & WaitForChild?

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#1

I hope i may get a better understanding of roblox.
To do this i must understand the difference between these events. I see them used all the time and i dont know what they do becuase they are all used in the same context.

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#2

Waiting for child is waiting for an object or gui or whatever it is to load into the game, getservice should be easy to understand just get a service, game.Getservice("") and whatever service you need.

#3

game:GetService() is only used for getting the game’s services. There are alot of services, some are in the explorer and some are hidden.

WaitForChild is used to yield the thread until a child is found with the specified name, there is a timer parameter that gives a limit to how long it can wait (without this it will wait forever until specified child exists)

so difference is everything between the two.

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