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Question by sona.viswam · Jun 03, 2013 at 06:47 AM · c#transformparentchild

First child of a gameobject

 GameObject first = GameObject.Find(ObjName+"-parent");

i have lot of chidren for a gameobject first . how to get first child in C#

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Answer by Chronos-L · Jun 03, 2013 at 07:06 AM

 Transform [] t = GameObject.Find("obj1").GetComponentsInChildren<Transform>();
 
 Transform theParent = t[0];
 Transform firstChild = t[1];

This should work.

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avatar image sona.viswam · Jun 03, 2013 at 10:06 AM 0
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@Chronos-L : Thanks

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As a single line:

 Transform firstChild = GameObject.Find("obj1").transform.GetChild(0);
avatar image Ash-Blue · Dec 28, 2014 at 12:34 PM -1
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You could write this simply in one line

 Transform child = GetComponentInChildren<Transform>();
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@Ash-Blue is incorrect, but his confusion is understandable. Although the name doesn't make this clear, if you call componentInstance.GetComponentInChildren it will return the Transform of componentInstance – not the Transform of the first child!

If you want the first child of a Transform, then transformInstance.GetChild(0) is what you should use.

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Answer by apantev · Jan 06, 2015 at 03:33 AM

 Transform firstChild = GameObject.Find("obj1").transform.GetChild(0);

This is the answer ThinkyHead_ gave in a comment but I'm putting it in a proper answer, because I don't want people to miss it.

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this is better.

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Answer by Hattoriseed · Mar 01, 2019 at 02:19 PM

This is super old, but the question was how to get the first GameObject, so the right answer should be GameObject first = gameObject.transform.GetChild(0).gameObject;

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You helped me lol

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Great and Simple! Thank you

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