Is it possible to FindWithTag only within children of a certain gameObject?

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In my game, certain objects my player interacts with have 4 empty spheres around them (all children of the object), which I've tagged as "Zone"s. Because there are many of these objects, it seems as I can't use FindGameObjectsWithTag to find an instance's 'Zones', because it will return ALL objects instances' zones. So I ask, is it possible to use this method within an instance of an object?

Returning all children of the object by looping through them is not a possible solution, as it has many other children with different tags.

What about the main objects, are those tagged or named the same?

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The main objects are tagged differently and also named differently. I got the answer I was looking for thanks to Jessy's answer!

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No, you can't do what you're asking directly, but I don't see why looping is a problem.

foreach (Transform child in parentTransform) if (child.CompareTag("Zone")) {} 
// Put whatever you want in the brackets.

Why is that not appropriate?

Awesome! CompareTag is exactly what I needed. I'll loop through all of them and the ones with the tag "Zone" are the ones I'll use to do what I want. Thank you very much!

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Certainly! ;-) There is another way to compare tags, but it's not as good thanks Eric! http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/34589/why-does-comparetag-exist

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Jessy's answer is the best one I could find so far. I've updated it for my version of Unity 5.5. "parentTransform" doesn't seem to work for me. Below is my hack. public Transform _myGameObject; void Awake() { //This finds the transform for the child gameobject foreach (Transform child in transform) if (child.CompareTag ("tagSomethingSomething")) { _myGameObject = child; } } Sharing is Carin' IndieNendoroid https://twitter.com/IndieNendoroid

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