Plugin that disables auto-aligning for UI elements?

I think that I can speak for alot of other UI designers when I say that Roblox’s auto aligning can get very frustrating, especially when you are trying to very precisely scale/fit a frame or image label into a very precise spot. If you don’t know what I’m talking about -

To be able to fit that twitter logo or textlabel properly inside the heading bar you’d have to do alot of moving, resizing and other things that can just get on your nerves.

So I was wondering, is there a way to disable aligning, for example, a studio option or plugin that does it? Is there a possibility that somebody could make a plugin that disables it?

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Hi, currently there is no solid “turn off” button for this however you can remove the plugin that does it.

Simply go to
%localappdata%\Roblox\Versions\version-whateveryourrobloxversionis\BuiltInPlugins

And delete: UIEditor.rbxmx from the BuiltInPlugins folder

This will not completely remove it but it will remove the way it annoyingly Bothers UI editing

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Is this a troll?
I am now unable to edit any Ui at all

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No, but if it causes a problem for you, you probably need to reinstall.

Only other option is living with the ui editor.

this deletes the entire ui editor

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I don’t know of anything at all that gets rid of auto-aligning/clipping. Alternatively, if you wanted to get that twitter image inside of that blue part you would want to set it’s y coordinate in the properties panel to be .5 (Scale, and assuming that the twitter icon image label is a child to the image label of that blue background part. Hope this helps, sorry I couldn’t give you the best answer but this method checks out.

Yea, but being able to freely move/scale images or frames would be much more convenient

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Many well known and professional UI designers almost never use the dragging feature, this is because once you get into UI design and you have to use offset paired with scale(which looks much nicer), dragging the UI wouldn’t be very convenient. So, the thing to take away from this is that you should get in the habit to manually resize and position the UI in the properties panel. I thought that dragging was good at first, but not even after a week of UI design I switched to the properties panel, it’s much simpler than you think it is.

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You can hard edit UIs using the properties window

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