Adornee-set nested BillboardGui.ResetOnSpawn is not respected

[trigophi]

Repro Place File: Place1.rbxl (62.9 KB)

[nomnomhungy (chad)]

Hi trigophi, unfortunately it is expected for GuiLayerCollectors that are not directly under StarterGui to not respect their ResetOnSpawn property. This includes BillboardGui. Since this behavior has been around for a long time, experiences that depend on this behavior would break if we were to change this.

See this comment for workarounds:

ResetOnSpawn BUG

Unfortunately, even though it might be a bug, Roblox Staff confirmed a few months ago that its behavior would not be changed as to avoid causing any issues with games that currently rely on that functionality. I found a workaround for this a couple of years ago which effectively involved replacing the folders with ScreenGuis and then setting its ResetOnSpawn property to the intended value that you expect for the ScreenGuis contained within it. But if you have multiple ScreenGuis in the same …