Most effective way to get deactivated children?

Questions & Answers
1

Hello.

I have a player object with all its potential armor pieces on it and deactivated. I also plan to add its potential weapons. Thing is, I didn’t find much on this topic that was updated and that worked on multiple children. There are too many children to hardcode bools for everything. Is there a more effective way to deactivate them all and only activate the one(s) needed?

2

The transform component holds references to all his children, so you can search them by:
Index: (Transform.GetChild())

Transform child = yourTransform.GetChild(i);

Name: (Transform.Find())

Transform child = yourTransform.Find("ObjectName");

You can access to the transform of an object:

Transform yourTransform = yourGameObject.transform;

You can get the children count in an object:

int childCount = yourTransform.childCount;

With this you can loop trough all the children of an object:

for (int currentChildI = 0; currentChildI < transform.childCount; currentChildI++) {
     Transform currentChild = transform.GetChild(currentChildI);
}

You can also write your own extensions methods to make your life easier, for example:

using UnityEngine;

public class Example : MonoBehaviour {
    public Transform swords, hats;//Your containers
    private void UsageExamples() {
        swords.SetStateOfAllChildren(false);//Would disable all swords
        hats.SetStateOfAllChildren(true);//Would enable all hats
        //
        swords.SetStateOfChild(true, "FireSword");///Would enable the object named "FireSword"
        hats.SetStateOfChild(false, 3);///Would disable the object in the index 3 (Zero-based numbering)
    }
}
public static class Extensions {
    public static void SetStateOfAllChildren(this Transform transform, bool newState) { for (int currentChildIndex = 0; currentChildIndex < transform.childCount; currentChildIndex++) transform.GetChild(currentChildIndex).SetStateOfGameObject(newState); }
    public static void SetStateOfChild(this Transform transform, bool newState, string childName) => transform.Find(childName).SetStateOfGameObject(newState);
    public static void SetStateOfChild(this Transform transform, bool newState, int childIndex) => transform.GetChild(childIndex).SetStateOfGameObject(newState);
    private static void SetStateOfGameObject(this Transform transform, bool newState) => transform.gameObject.SetActive(newState);
}