How can I find child gameobject?

Question

I want to say somethings like..

Gameobject.find(child gameobject of specific parent Gameobject)

Can anyone help me. thanks!

Look at this http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/10417/how-can-i-access-the-children-of-a-transform.html — Imapler, Sep 10 '14 at 10:57
[There is even a find function on the transform](http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Transform.Find.html) — T. Kiley, Sep 10 '14 at 10:57

score 56 · Accepted Answer · edited May 26 '15 at 04:59

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GameObject.Find will search for a gameobject in the scene. To search a gameobject from a parent, use Transform.

There are 2 ways of doing it:

The 2nd option is deprecated but still functional, so you'd better use the 1st option.

edited May 26 '15 at 04:59

demented hedgehog

answered Sep 10 '14 at 11:09

Jay Kazama

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when i am trying this code.i found one error like..."Cannot convert type `UnityEngine.Transform' to `UnityEngine.GameObject" – Sep 10 '14 at 11:42
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it is because `Transform.find("childname")` returns a type of Transform. If you want to get the gameobject, just add .gameObject at the end: `Transform.find("childname").gameObject` – Jay Kazama Sep 10 '14 at 11:44
I made user3164248's changes to this answer (just to avoid confusion). – demented hedgehog May 26 '15 at 04:14

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 17 '15 at 07:30

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If a GameObject are you looking for in hierarchy it must be like:

transform.Find("head/eyes")
transform.FindChild("head/eyes")

answered Jul 17 '15 at 07:30

zxmaster

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Thank you! The "Find()" call was returning NULL for me and I saw in the Unity docs that it doesn't traverse the hierarchy (to get sub-children) by default. Using the forward slash allows you to do that (e.g. "ParentName/ChildName/GrandchildName" to get "GrandchildName"). – clamum Jul 09 '20 at 04:12

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 13 '15 at 16:12

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Fixing Jay Kazama's answer. The correct answers are:

With small t (property transform, not class Transform).

answered Mar 13 '15 at 16:12

user3164248

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I changed Kazama's answer to include these fixes. – demented hedgehog May 26 '15 at 04:14

Junaid Pathan · Answer 4 · 2019-01-18T10:53:01.847

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For answers above stating transform.FindChild("childname") as Answer, this is to inform you that transform.FindChild("childname") is deprecated.

Use this, this will work as expected

transform.Find("childName");

if you want to find Child of a GameObject by name, use this,

GameObject head = HeadPanel;    // just for reference
head.transorm.Find("childName").gameObject;

edited Jan 18 '19 at 10:53

answered Jan 18 '19 at 10:47

Junaid Pathan

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered May 08 '19 at 09:50

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You can do this by GetChild(index of child members)

answered May 08 '19 at 09:50

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The bad thing about using the GetChild (index) is that if you change the order of the objects you lose the reference to them – Jaime Roman May 21 '19 at 09:21

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