Picture in Picture Scope (Image Magnifying) Tutorial

Just a quick disclaimer, this is made by using Glass aka the buggiest material in all of ROBLOX. If you want decals, particles and/or semi-transparent objects to appear you shouldn’t use this technique to magnify objects.

The magnifying effect only works for 8+ Graphics

ignore the fact i edited this topic like 3 times, i suck at english.


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I suppose you have the actual scope that you’re going to add the magnifying effect to. Which will probably just look like a tube.


First, add a glass sphere inside your tube. Make sure its centered so it doesn’t cause any problems. The less transparency it has and smaller it is; the more magnified the image will be.

Then, you will have to duplicate the sphere and make it a cylinder. Make sure it covers the entire sphere except the part which you’ll be looking from. It might still cut a few bits off the front glass but most of the time it doesn’t cause any problems. (if it does cause any problems, just add a cylinder with a hole in it to cover the edges)

You will have to negate the cylinder, and union it with the glass sphere.
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And your scope will be done.

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The more close you are, the less magnified it is. The “scope shadow” effect also appears if you are too close or wiggle the scope a bit.


If you have any questions I’m willing to answer them. Thanks for taking the time to read this tutorial.

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This is Useful,

Couple of Questions:

  • How would you slightly Alter the Distortion of the Scope?
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Can you show what you mean?

I found this out while messing with the glass material. No idea.

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I’m referring to the Distortion Effect with the Scope:


How would I alter it?

You would have to make the glass bigger, so it would look less spherical therefore altering the distortion.

Actually Nevermind, i simply fixed it by Turning the Ball Into a UnionOperation by combining 2 of them, and Changing its Size:
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You can’t combine glass because both of them are semi transparent. The one on the front makes the one on the back entirely invisible

I mean like I put two Spheres together, same size, Same Position and created a Union, that way i could alter on axis rather than all

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Also can you show me a magnified and non magnified view? I feel like that just wouldn’t work.



The Effects are more Appearent with smaller Scopes

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Very small magnification but does the job.