Creating a custom tooltip without a custom inventory

[acuaro]

Hello!

For my new project, I want to achieve a tooltip that looks similar to this:

The player would need to hover over the tool in their hotbar, and it would show a GUI right over that area that contains info on the tool like the above. I know Roblox already provides the ToolTip property on tools, but I want it to look a lot more rich.

So far I can’t really find much on this, and due to the nature of the game, I think the default hotbar works best so I don’t want to make a custom one.

Does anyone know how I can achieve something like this?

Thanks in advanced!

[GoodUsername777]

You can try using Interactive Surface GUI. You can browse through the article to help you.

[acuaro]

Oh, I should’ve clarified. I meant I want a similar effect except when the player hovers over a tool

In here, and a GUI will come out. Thanks!

[GoodUsername777]

@acuaro

I think the default hotbar works best

If you want to use the roblox default hotbar, you may want to go into the corescripts. Maybe browse through the CoreGui to help you.

[GoodUsername777]

After skimming through it, I don’t think it can be possible to do this accurately.

Accessing the CoreGui in a localscript

Best bet to get information about CoreGui content is to use Roblox Studio and Play Test. Open Studio File > Settings > Studio tab Look for subsection ‘Explorer’ Show Core GUI in Explorer while Playing Close > Restart if you prefer to Play Test Then you can get all the information about CoreGui that you’ll need to position things you want. There is no way of indexing, viewing, or getting the values of anything that is inside CoreGui using a normal script or localscript as Roblox intends it to…

Although, if you really want you could make a fake Hotbar under the actual Hotbar and make it so if you hover over it would display those things. Otherwise, your best bet is to make a custom Hotbar similar to the default Roblox one.

If you want to access its default UI though, check that forum to help you enable to be able to see core GUI, so you can copy it.

[acuaro]

Alright, I think I’ll use an invisible GUI behind to detect it, thanks!