Check multiple scripts for bool, return false if they all return false, return true if even one returns true

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Hi everyone;

I’ve a quick question… There are multiple game objects with the same script (let’s say, script A) which contains a public bool. And these objects all share the same parent.

I want to check the children of this parent(with multiple children with and without script A) to see which objects contain script A, then check for a public bool in every one of them. If they all return false, then a separate script will return false as well, however if even one of them returns true, then that separate script should return true as well.

I’ve tried a couple of ways but couldn’t get it working right… If anyone out there could teach me how to do this, you’d make my day!

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using UnityEngine;

public class SeparateScript : MonoBehaviour
{
    public bool CheckIfAnyChildHasScriptA()
    {
        ScriptA[] components = GetComponentsInChildren<ScriptA>();
        foreach (ScriptA scriptA in components)
        {
            if (scriptA.publicBool)
            {
                // At least one child has the bool set to true
                return true;
            }
        }
        // None of the children have the bool set to true
        return false;
    }
}
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Thank you! I’ll give it a try ASAP and let you know!

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Hi there, sorry for the late response. Your response was somewhat close to what I had been trying, but it too gave inconsistent results (returns true/false constantly)… What I’ve come up with (maybe this’ll help someone else) is to have a common “pool” integer within the parent. Each child object returns a value of 0 or 1, for true or false. The pool collects all the numbers, and if the result is greater than 0, returns true, if not, returns false. This seems to work 100%!
But thanks again for your quick response!