Right now UIGradient only has the Linear pattern type. This pattern is constrained to the innermost edges and creates a solid color wall in the corners of the frame
LinearFill fixes this by making the gradient stretch to the farthest corners of the frame.
Circular generates a radial falloff pattern, which can be positioned using the existing Offset property.
Conical generates a radial pattern with two axes of gradiation for more sophisticated designs
We actually thought about adding a scale property / open up possibility to directly specify start/end control points in the screengui/surfacegui/billboardgui space. Any of those will unlock the LinearFill. While we currently do lack intuitive ways to edit those properties with correct visualization support.
We should be able to do this with multiple color/transparency keys support.
As a Roblox developer, I currently find a lot of places where I could use radial (circular) gradients, especially in inventory icons and buttons. Adding new gradient patterns would hugely improve the usefulness of UIGradients.
mmm, radial gradients.
At the moment, the only workaround is to upload a white radial gradient created in the image editing program of your choice, add an image label to the button, set the size to fill the entire button, set the ScaleType to Crop, and change the ImageColor3 to your liking. But this has its own problems–it doesn’t conform to the container shape, meaning if you’ve got a uniquely shaped button the gradient could overflow onto the background.
I would love to see these upgrades made to UIGradients because it would vastly simplify my workflow for things like these.
Support for circular UIGradients is still important and something that would open up a lot of workflows - the only way to achieve them currently is by applying the patterns yourself through external tools, which defeats the purpose of being able to animate them in-game to achieve powerful effects such as this UI:
The only way to achieve this in Roblox would be to animate it externally and use a spritesheet, which becomes extremely inefficient for long animations and takes up a bunch of memory (my estimations lie at about ~80-90 MB just for the images).
Adding more types of gradients, like circular and conical gradients, would be a very useful option for us as developers/UI designers. It means less work in Photoshop when all we want to do is add a different style of gradient that matches the element or game style more. I would love to see this added.
