Click a surface gui from behind a brick?

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1

How do I make a surface GUI able to be used from behind a brick?
Here is a video of the problem.
https://gyazo.com/0b82d49be1964ff48763fc68ae4b6f4f

2

Have you already tried utilizing the AlwaysOnTop property?

3

Yes, but there are other bricks on top of it.

4

I’m assuming you’re using mouse.Target, so you could try and connect a function to mouse.Move that will only detect parts you want to highlight; however you won’t be able to configure this for going through multiple parts layered on top of eachother

local mouse = player:GetMouse()
local whitelistedNames = {
    ["TileSelection"] = true -- whatever your tile is named
}
mouse.Move:Connect(function()
    local target = mouse.Target
    -- ignore the current target if it isn't whitelisted so it can try and hit a whitelisted one
    if target and not whitelistedNames[target.Name] then
        mouse.TargetFilter = target
    end
end)

Once again, this won’t work with multiple non-whitelisted parts atop eachother.
Hopefully someone can come along with a better solution, if this works for you then that’s great

5

There will be multiple parts layered on top of each other, is there any other way you can think of? Like some way I can make the parts on top let the mouse through? Thank you.

6

What you could do to make the sample above work with multiple layered parts is have the selection part and visuals separated. The hierarchy could look like this:
image
In this example, "selection" is a whitelisted name.
“visuals” will be ignored.

You could then ignore target.Parent rather than target itself, and that will ignore all the parts that are part of the visual aspect of the model. (make sure to ignore workspace as a parent to filter out due to terrain being able to be a target)

Quick example I made:

https://gyazo.com/f8d394bb0db987c4d2d5d219751c8b23

Code for the above:

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer

local mouse = player:GetMouse()
local whitelistedNames = {
    ["selection"] = true -- whatever your tile is named
}

local lastTarget
mouse.Move:Connect(function()
    local target = mouse.Target
    -- ignore the current target if it isn't whitelisted so it can try and hit a whitelisted one
    if target then
		if whitelistedNames[target.Name] then
        	lastTarget = lastTarget or target
			target.gui.label.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(0, 255, 0)
		else
			if target.Parent ~= workspace then -- ignore workspace b/c it'll ignore *everything*
				print("filter:", target.Parent)
				mouse.TargetFilter = target.Parent
			end
		end
    end

	if lastTarget and lastTarget ~= target then
		lastTarget.gui.label.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(255, 0, 0)
		lastTarget = nil
	end
end)
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I will try this out tomorrow thank you!