Part setting its position on the screen to part in workspace

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#1

Hello, I’m trying to make part or frame (I don’t know which is easier) that sets its own position. size, rotation on screen to part in workspace. I know its very hard to make it but I don’t know how to start making it.

The question is how to get position, rotation and size in which frame would have to set?

Example:
1.Red thingy on screen is frame and blue thingy is part in workspace. The red thingy should set its own position, size and rotation on screen to blue part
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#2

So what you are saying is that you want a way to be able to make a 3D Highlight. The best way I can think of to do this is to do the listed steps below in a local script:

  1. have a part that you can resize and re-align.
  2. On the selected part or model use BasePart | Roblox Creator Documentation or Model | Roblox Creator Documentation to get it’s size.
  3. Re-size the part to the needed size and then move it to the model or parts position using PVInstance | Roblox Creator Documentation and PVInstance | Roblox Creator Documentation. You can rotate it to face the players local camera with CFrame.lookAt.
#3

Doing this with frames is impossible to get completely accurate as frames are square and Parts never (almost) will be a perfect square.

However, it is possible to create an outline of the part using a ViewportFrame. You can create one then simply position it in the same place where the Part would be in the workspace. Make sure the Viewport Camera is set to the CurrentCamera. And you should be able to see it.

(Is that what you want?)

#4

Just use SurfaceGui instances if you want a Gui to appear on a “Part” instance.