looping through a folder

[queen rapids]

any idea how im supposed to loop through this whole folder for all of the parts only for my raycast?

local Position = script.Parent.Parent.Mouth2.Position
local Direction = script.Parent.Parent.Mouth2.CFrame.LookVector * 100
local rayresult = workspace:Raycast(Position,Direction)
local raycastparams = RaycastParams.new()
raycastparams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {workspace.Plants.Peashooter}
raycastparams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude```

my script rn

[cerulean delta]

uhmm

cant u just do a for loop

[queen rapids]

i mean i tried it didnt rlly work

[cerulean delta]

try this

so what are u tryna get

[queen rapids]

im tryna exclude all of the parts in the folder

so im tryna get all of the parts

[cerulean delta]

for i,v in plants:GetDescendants() do if v:IsA(“Part”) then code end end

plants being a variable for the folder

notice this only tags the parts not baseparts which include stuff like spheres, wdges and other

[queen rapids]

how am i supposed to get "v" out side the scripts then

[cerulean delta]

bruh wlr

local x

for i,v in plants:GetDescendants() do
if v:IsA(“Part”) then
code x = v
end
end
more code

[queen rapids]

but thing is

you cant just plug v

or x in that case

[cerulean delta]

u can

[queen rapids]

inside the raycast filtertype thing

[cerulean delta]

o

[queen rapids]

arent u supposed to return it

[cerulean delta]

I thought u meant u just needed the parts

well then u could put it in a function and return v

[queen rapids]

i mean yea but im not tryna look through it every time it runs

loop*

[cerulean delta]

the function will then become v

[queen rapids]

could you teach me how to do that

[cerulean delta]

local function raycastParts()
the for loop
return v
end
end
end

then the function itself will refer to v

[tardy breach]

hypothetically, use folders for what they're for

[cerulean delta]

so you could then type

[tardy breach]

put all things of the type you want into a singular folder

[cerulean delta]

print(raycastParts().Name)

[tardy breach]

Do getchildren

ez

[cerulean delta]

uh

[queen rapids]

hm

uk what i think i thought of another solution

[queen rapids]

its not working somehow...

[half lark]

so what exactly r u trying

to get the parts?

or to have them in a singular variable

[queen rapids]

this

[tough fiber]

the property of raycastparams is named filterDescendantsInstances, if you just add the folder then everything under the folder in the hierarchy will get ignored

[queen rapids]

You mean doing workspace.plants instead?

[tough fiber]

yeah

[queen rapids]

Didn't work

[royal marsh]

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[queen rapids]

The peashooter is somehow still shootig

[tough fiber]

uhh

are you making the parameters after you raycast?

[queen rapids]

No it's before

[tough fiber]

doesn't seem like it to me

[queen rapids]

Ah

Lemme try

Doing it before

[tough fiber]

well yeah

you do it before

and you pass in the parameters to the function

[queen rapids]

Still ain't working

Ok so this is what I tried

I put string values in the peashooter itself named plant and string values in the dummies named zombies

When the dummy is on the exact lane the peashooter behind is supposed to print is a zombie, however it somehow doesn't detect it

And note the dummy isn't inside workspace.gardens so idk what's going on

[dense vessel]

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