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 Modern versions of ROBLOX include many new features and functions which provide an easier experience for creators to make their own game. Because of this, older ROBLOX clients have far less features and therefore functions to offer. Fortunately, due to these limitations, ROBLOXians have — in the past, and in the now — made their own functions to serve the same purpose as their counterparts in the present.
+== WaitForChild ==
+This function is a replacement for the function that's well known to most — if not all — scripters of ROBLOX. It keeps waiting until it finds a child with a specific name inside a specific parent. This kind of function can be found in old Animate scripts found inside a player's character!
+<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
+local function waitForChild(parent, name)
+	while not parent:FindFirstChild(name, false) do
+		wait(0.03)
+	end
-=WaitForChild=
+	return parent:FindFirstChild(name, false)
-This function is a replacement for the function that's well known to most — if not all — scripters of ROBLOX. It keeps waiting until it finds a child with a specific name inside a specific parent. This kind of function can be found in old Animate scripts found inside a player's character!
-{{code|lang=lua|
-function WaitForChild(where, what) -- the "where" parameter is an object, and the "what" parameter is a string
-	while not where:FindFirstChild(what) do wait() end -- wait until finds the "what" string inside the "where" object
-	return where:FindFirstChild(what) -- return the child
 end
-}}
+</syntaxhighlight>
+== GetDescendants ==
+This function is also considered a replacement to a very important function. It returns a table which contains all objects found within a requested object.
+<syntaxhighlight lang="lua">
+local function getDescendants(instance)
+	local descendants = {}
-=GetDescendants=
+	for i, v in ipairs(instance:GetChildren()) do
-This function is also considered a replacement to a very important function. It returns a table which contains all objects found within a requested object.
+		table.insert(descendants, v)
-{{code|lang=lua|function GetDescendants(instance) -- the "instance" parameter is an object
-	local descendants {{=}} {}
+		for j, w in ipairs(getDescendants(v)) do
-	for i, v in pairs(instance:GetChildren()) do -- loop through children of parameter
+			table.insert(descendants, w)
-		table.insert(descendants, v) -- insert child into table
-		for j, w in pairs(GetDescendants(v)) do -- loops again by firing itself; creates a loop and returns itself until all children are found
-			table.insert(descendants, w) -- insert child of child of ... into table
 		end
 	end
 	return descendants -- returns all children found
 end
-}}
+</syntaxhighlight>