Allowing SurfaceGuis to depend on lighting conditions

Feature Requests Engine Features
#1

Currently, SurfaceGuis look exactly the same regardless of the lighting conditions around it. This is useful in some cases, but in cases where we want to display dynamic content (example: custom text on an ID card in a game) on the surfaces of parts, this doesn’t look right at all in dark settings.

For clarification, this is what I mean:
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In this situation, because the part is fully lit, this looks okay, but when the surroundings become darker:
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The SurfaceGui “glows”. I’d like a way to disable this glow and cause the SurfaceGui to also become darker. Ideally, this would be a boolean property on the SurfaceGui instance.

What are your thoughts?

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#2

Yes please.

#3

I wouldn’t mind some kind of optional tinting based on the lighting of the adornee’s origin.

#4

Hell, why not all 3D GUIs? Selection Boxes, Lassos, SurfaceGuis! The whole lot!

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#5

This would be great.

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#6

Always wanted something like this.

#7

I support this idea but it has to be fully optional ; cause some games rely on this glow in the dark !

#8

I don’t really see such a feature being needed, you could just tweak the colors and transparency.

#9

Just noticed this was an old post lmao

#10

Stay tuned

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#11

Well, instead of needing to manually account for lighting conditions, nearby lights and so on, this would make it much easier to incorporate 3D UIs into the game world. What about a big SurfaceGui where a nearby light source gradually gets out of range on it? You’d have to make a gradient then.

#12

True. Nice example about the gradients.