Any way to make a SurfaceGUI visible 'through' a ScreenGui

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#1

Well, as the title states.

For some context, I’m covering the players screen with a full-screen sized frame, and I’d like to outline some objects and make it visible through the screen-sized frame.

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#2

Can you give image example?

#3

I can’t find any reference or such, but just imagine a black frame covering your whole screen. But you can see red outlines of characters.

#4

I’m pretty sure you need to slap some highlights in and change it to “AlwaysOnTop”. This is for billboards too. Not sure with surface guis

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#5

I believe setting the Z-index higher should do this. Like @JustAGameDeveloper1 mentioned, using AlwaysOnTop should either help it or fix it entirely.

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#6

I’ve tried both increasing Z-Index and Always on Top.

Always on Top works if I’m using a part to block the players vision, but not if I’m using a ScreenGui.

#7

Where do you have the Surface GUI stored? If it’s not inside of the ScreenGui putting it there might fix the problem. I’m not too sure, though.

#8

Oh it’s not parented to the ScreenGui.

I’ll try parenting it to the ScreenGui, will update in a bit.

#9

Does not work unfortunately, not sure what other solution there may be

#10

Instead of using a Frame to cover their screen, why not just position a neon black block? (neon black is basically Color3.new(0,0,0)

On a LocalScript, whenever the Camera CFrame changes, update the part’s position to

Part.Position = CFrame.new(Camera.CFrame.Position + (Camera.CFrame.LookVector * 2)) * Camera.CFrame.Rotation

Then, for the outlining the players, why use a SurfaceGui? You can just use Highlights, just parent them to the player model (not head, the character)

Also, I recommend Highlights other than SurfaceGui as for SurfaceGuis you need to parent it to every limb multiplied by 6 (for all sides), but the Highlight only needs 1 instance

But if you want to only highlight 1 limb, for example the torso, parent the Highlight to the torso instead of the character

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#11

Well, I did try it with a part, but it looks very obstructing, and moving the camera can make it sort of glitchy. I wasn’t aware of the existence of the highlights instance though.