Use GetComponentsInChildren without also returning the parent's component as well?

Questions & Answers
1

GetComponentsInChildren also returns the component requested from the parent object as well as it’s children. Is there a way I can only get the children’s components? UnityScript preferable.

2

I disagree that UnityScript is preferable, because you can’t write extension methods with it. Here’s a method that allows you to choose just how deep in the hierarchy you want to pull components from:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;

public static class TransformExtensions 
{
	/// <summary>
	/// <param name="skipChildren">How many child levels deep to select from</param>
	public static T[] GetComponentsInChildren<T>
		(this Transform transform, int skipChildren, bool includeInactive = false)
		where T : Component
	{
		if (skipChildren == 0)
			return transform.GetComponentsInChildren<T>(includeInactive);

		skipChildren--;
		return transform.Cast<Transform>().SelectMany( child =>
			child.GetComponentsInChildren<T>(skipChildren, includeInactive) ).ToArray();
	}
}

Then you could use it like this:

transform.GetComponentsInChildren<TypeOfYourComponent>(1);