ViewportFrame in SurfaceGui not showing parts

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I’ve been trying to create snapshots of maps using ViewportFrames to make it easier to copy and paste maps in for a voting system.
Everything seems to work fine (no errors), but the viewport only displays the background. image
The parts and camera are also inside of the ViewportFrame, with the camera attached to the ViewportFrame.
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I’ve looked through many solutions but I can’t find any. When testing, I used a script in workspace which worked ok, so I moved it to where I wanted, on the client-side, which made it stop working.

Code:

local MapsFolder = game.ReplicatedStorage.Maps

game.ReplicatedStorage.Remotes.LinkSurfaceGui.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(pad, MapName)
	if pad == nil and MapName == nil then
		for _, sgui in pairs(game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui:GetChildren()) do
			sgui:Destroy()
		end
		return
	end
	
	local MapModel = MapsFolder:FindFirstChild(MapName)
	if not MapModel then
		print("map model doesn't exist: "..MapName)
		return
	end
	local focusCF = MapModel.Focus.CFrame

	local surfacegui = Instance.new("SurfaceGui")
	surfacegui.Face = Enum.NormalId.Top

	local thumbnail = Instance.new("ViewportFrame")
	thumbnail.Name = "Thumbnail"
	thumbnail.Size = UDim2.fromScale(1, 1)
	thumbnail.Position = UDim2.fromScale(0, 0)

	for _, part in pairs(MapModel:GetChildren()) do
		part:Clone().Parent = thumbnail
	end

	thumbnail.Parent = surfacegui
	
	print(surfacegui.Name)
	for _,v in pairs(surfacegui:GetChildren()) do
		print(v.Name)
	end
	
	local camera = Instance.new("Camera")
	thumbnail.CurrentCamera = camera
	camera.Parent = surfacegui.Thumbnail
	camera.CFrame = focusCF
	
	surfacegui.Adornee = pad
	surfacegui.Parent = game.Players.LocalPlayer.PlayerGui
end)
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