ZIndex is way higher than the things on top of it, but it still renders on the bottom

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I’m trying to make a player list GUI, but when I clone the player frame that I have in replicated storage to a frame, it renders on the bottom and the player can’t see it. The ZIndex is high on the player frame, but still is on the bottom. I have no idea why.

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local repStorage = game.ReplicatedStorage
local playerList = repStorage:WaitForChild("players")
local playerTag = repStorage:WaitForChild("playerTag")

local numPlayersLoaded = 0

playerList.ChildAdded:Connect(function(player)
	print("Player Added")
	for _, i in pairs(playerList:GetChildren()) do
		local pt = playerTag:Clone()
		pt.Parent = game.StarterGui.ScreenGui.Frame["Player List"]
		pt.Position = playerTag.Position - UDim2.new(0,0,0, numPlayersLoaded*50)
		pt.TextLabel.Text = player.Name
		numPlayersLoaded = numPlayersLoaded+1
	end
end)
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Have you tried applying the ZIndex when putting the GUI into the player list?

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the index is already set in the properties before it is cloned.

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and yeah i did and it didn’t work

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Have you checked if the player list is above the frame?

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I believe UI elements nested deeper are always rendered on top of more shallowly nested objects no matter what the ZIndex is set to. ZIndex only defines the order of children that are nested at the same level in the same object(?)

You can fix this by setting your ScreenGui’s ZIndexBehavior property to “Global” instead of “Sibling”. This will make the ZIndex property act as a “global” depth control. Be aware that doing this might require you to adjust some of the z-indexes on your other UI components.

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