Drop Shadow Plugin

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:alarm_clock: UPDATE 9/12/2022 - Drop Shadow Plugin v2.0 is currently in development. It will feature the ability to generate shadows to your direct specifications and with UI’s that have rounded corners. This will be a desktop application to utilize native APIs.

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Drop Shadow Plugin

IMPORTANT

:exclamation: In order for this function to work correctly and have the have your ScreenGui instance you need to have ZIndexBehavior as Global :exclamation:

Also: You can’t use rounded frames as the shadows are for 90 degree angles.

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About

The Drop Shadow Plugin is a simple plugin to let you create drop shadows on your UI elements. From Frame to Text Buttons and more you can add a drop shadow.

Enough of me talking let’s see a video of it :slight_smile:

Some pictures:

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Elevation Levels

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Take the plugin here

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#3

Now my GUIs will look way more sharp. Thanks man, this is great!

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#5

ZIndex Bug Status.

This update is going to take some time as we’re also updating the UI work even better along with some more settings to make sure it works a majority of the time!

Solution Found

5/11/2020 at 12:05pm

We have found a solution to this bug and are currently going to attempt to implement a fix.

Identified

5/11/2020 at 12:00pm

We identified a bug within the ZIndex where the shadow is sometimes rendered above the element you’re trying to create a drop shadow for. We’re currently looking for a solution to this and will update this post once we’ve identified a solution and attempt to implement it.

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#6

This is honestly a great plugin. Great job!

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#7

Are you planing on adding support for round UI aspects?

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#8

At this moment I do not. It would be extremely time consuming to need to create an individual asset for each round corner.

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#9

Do you plan adding drop shadows for text?

#10

No, not sure if this plugin still works but it allowed text dropshadows along with more features for text.

https://www.roblox.com/library/270321334/TextPlus-Plugin

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#11

I found something that might help some people.
If you have AutoScale Plus and you have “Image ScaleType Fit By Default”, it wont work. image

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#12

absolutely amazing plugin and so easy to use however i think that support for ui elements with rounded corners would help a lot too (if possible) :slight_smile:

#13

I would love to do this in the future, it just may take a long time as I would need to create an image for every single corner radius and it’s elevation.

But I’ll make sure to add it to my to-do list.

One thing I might do is only allow certain UICorner radius’s to be used just so it’s easier on me.

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#14

Upcoming Update

(release date unknown, but development is in progress)

  • New UI that is more user-friendly and requires less steps
  • Support for Rounded UI’s (Only certain radius for UICorner and needs to be offset and not scale)
  • Complete rewrite, not that current performance is bad just a way to optimize the code.
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#15

I would recommend making it clear that only GlobalZIndex behavior is supported.

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#16

Hey man, thank you for making such a huge contribution!

#17

Hey man! Amazing plug-in :slight_smile: I would love it though if you’d add support for rounded frames with Roblox’ new UICorner :slight_smile:

#18

Hey!! I’m curious if I can use this for commercial use.

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