Is there a way to get any offspring that belongs in a certain group directly?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By AturSams

You can get all members of a group:

get_tree().get_nodes_in_group("group")

You can get all children:

get_children()

Is there a way to simply get specifically children that are in that group?
Is the only solution to get all children and then filter by their group?

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: jgodfrey

I don’t think there any single, built-in way to do that. I’d probably get the nodes in the group of interest and then get their children. So, something like this:

func _ready():
	for node in get_tree().get_nodes_in_group("the_group"):
		print(node.name)
		for child in node.get_children():
			print("   " + child.name)
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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: Bernard Cloutier

Is the only solution to get all children and then filter by their group?

Yeah, or the other way around:

var children_in_group = []
for node in get_tree().get_nodes_in_group("the_group"):
    if is_a_parent_of(node):
        children_in_group.add(node)