GUI rotation issue with ClipsDescendants

[BuildIntoGames (Preston)]

When a GUI’s rotation is not set to default (0), It does not follow any ClipsDescendants settings. This is really annoying and ruins a lot of possibilities with effects. I’ve seen on other posts about this issue, but none have addressed a way to avoid this issue.
Either fix, or help me find a solution to rid of this problem - it’s driving me crazy!

Thanks!

[buildthomas]

This is not a bug, this has been the case ever since rotation on GUI objects were released, and it has been made that way due to the fact that the paradigm (convex clipping) that could accomplish this is inefficient for real-time updates to the interface compared to clipping in axis-aligned GUI objects.

Make GUI Rotation effected by ClipsDescendants

Stravant is correct - the reason this feature is not implemented atm is the requirement to change the UI code to work with arbitrary convex polygons everywhere instead of axis-aligned rectangles.

We can’t use scissor rectangles since they don’t provide full clipping support anyway as mentioned above; the only complete solution that does not need convex polygon clipping is stenciling, but it would require us to de-optimize current rendering code that aggressively merges geometry for visible UI elements to avoid CPU overhead.

We may end up implementing correct clipping some day but it would require a carefully optimized approach that only switches to slow convex clipping when absolutely necessary.

So probably not anywhere soon

[Anaminus]

Just look at the wiki, bro. All the information you’ll ever need is right there.

[MrgamesNwatch]

No mention of the behavior under http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=API:Class/GuiObject/ClipsDescendants either. I’m surprised it’s not documented after the number of times this has been discussed.

[digpoe]

It is mentioned now. On both pages.

[Ripull]

@Anaminus

Just look at the wiki, bro. All the information you’ll ever need is right there.

Haha I get this.

But as for solutions for this problem, you’re stuck. We all just have to set with a rotation of 0 for now, or just not clip our guis at all.