Transform.Find wrapper (get descendant ny name)

[bcristianParticipant]

Can’t believe this one is not already present 😀
(and after posting this I really hope it’s really not present and I’m not making a fool of myself for missing it, lol)

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using NodeCanvas.Framework; using ParadoxNotion.Design; using UnityEngine;   namespace NodeCanvas.Tasks.Actions {     [Category("GameObject")]     public class FindChildByName : ActionTask<Transform>     {         [RequiredField]         public BBParameter<string> childName;           [BlackboardOnly]         public BBParameter<Transform> saveAs;           protected override string info         {             get { return string.Format("{0} = {1}.FindChild({2})", saveAs, agentInfo, childName); }         }           protected override void OnExecute()         {             var result = agent.Find(childName.value);             saveAs.value = result;             EndAction(result != null);         }     } }

[GavalakisKeymaster]

Hey,

Indeed this does not exist as a custom action. The reason for that is only because it can be done with ScriptControl/ExecuteFunction 🙂

[bcristianParticipant]

Yes, but there is a big caveat to using ScriptControl/ExecuteFunction for this: it will succeed even if the child is not found.
Obvious if one stops to think about how a generic method invocation action would work and what status is returns, but all to easy to expect that it will return it the child is found or not, and be left scratching one’s head at the seemingly puzzling behavior. Or at least it was for me 😀

[GavalakisKeymaster]

You are right in that regard.
So, I’ve just added this action task in the package 🙂
Thanks.

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