Looping through children in a foreach loop

Question

I have a gameobject with a bunch of empty gameobjects as children that I want to use as spawn positions.

I want to loop through each of these positions and have a certain amount of probability that an object spawns.

How could I write a foreach loop that takes the parent object and loops through all its children like it would with an array?

Answer 1

By itself, the transform class implements the IEnumerable (with Transform as the generic type) interface, which allows you to use a foreach with a transform as the interable object. You could also use a normal for loop, using Transform.GetChild(int). Examples:

foreach(Transform child in transform)
{
    /// All your stuff with child here...
}

for(int i = 0; i < transform.childCount; i++)
{
    /// All your stuff with transform.GetChild(i) here...
}

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

A good coding practice would result in the following code:

[SerializeField]
GameObject gb;    //outside the function

foreach (Transform child in gb.transform)
{
    Debug.Log("Name Of Child " + child.transform.name);
}