How Did They Create This UI Effect?

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Hi!
I’ve been noticing a lot of modern games using animated UI elements that look really high-quality. It makes me wonder — how are these effects created? For example, the moving or pulsating border effect — is that done using video-based GUI elements, or something else? I’m not very experienced with UI development yet, but I’d love to try recreating this kind of effect. Any tips or info would be greatly appreciated!

For instance, that effect where the border or background of a UI panel is animated and appears to flow or move — could that be done using video materials? I’m not sure; maybe it’s implemented using embedded video elements?

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Typically, developers animate their GUI using the TweenService. This is the easiest way to do it as it’ll be coded into both the Roblox client and server.
While I don’t know about those specific effects, you can may your own high quality animations using TweenService with no issue.

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looks like theyre using a custom sprite sheet and just changing the image to look animated, kinda like a gif

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I also think this is what’s happening

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Oh!, that’s just a ViewportFrame showing a rotating block will billboard Gui which has an image label in it with point light!

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I tried to do something similar using a sprite sheet, but with large images, the quality is greatly lost, so I tried to make smaller edges individually and I actually got this effect!

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but still to repeat such effect as on the I think they used videoFrame just they have too high quality resolution I don’t know maybe it’s not true.