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<function name="GetChildren" parent="Entity" type="classfunc">⤶ <description>⤶ Gets the children of the entity - that is, every entity whose move parent is this entity.⤶ ⤶ <note>This function returns <page>Entity:SetMoveParent</page> children, **NOT** <page>Entity:SetParent</page>!⤶ ⤶ <page>Entity:SetParent</page> however also calls <page>Entity:SetMoveParent</page>.⤶ ⤶ ⤶ ⤶ This means that some entities in the returned list might have a NULL <page>Entity:GetParent</page>.⤶ ⤶ This also means that using this function on players will return their weapons on the client but not the server.</note>⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Shared</realm>⤶ <rets>⤶ <ret name="" type="table">A list of movement children entities</ret>⤶ </rets>⤶ </function>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Example usage and output</description>⤶ <code>⤶ -- ent is a prop_effect entity⤶ PrintTable( ent:GetChildren() )⤶ </code>⤶ <output>1 = Entity [184][prop_dynamic]</output>⤶ ⤶ </example>

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