LayoutOrder is goofy | Roblox Studio Community | Page 1

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 1:22 PM

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I'm making a rhythm game and I'm trying to make a circle slide across the grey bars as you can see in the video. However, it is for some reason shown beneath the grey bars instead of above them despite having the same LayoutOrder as the buttons on the left side of the screen which are clearly shown above the bars.

fiery sparrow Jul 13, 2025, 1:35 PM

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just increase the circles Zindex

misty latch Jul 13, 2025, 2:14 PM

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what is LayoutOrder?

fiery sparrow Jul 13, 2025, 2:15 PM

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pretty sure he ment Zindex

misty latch Jul 13, 2025, 2:15 PM

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no like

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literally

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whats that

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what does it do

fiery sparrow Jul 13, 2025, 2:15 PM

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you know how layers work in art programs like krita?

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same thing

misty latch Jul 13, 2025, 2:16 PM

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like what should have priority of being shown?

fiery sparrow Jul 13, 2025, 2:16 PM

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yeah thats pretty much how it works

misty latch Jul 13, 2025, 2:16 PM

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ah alr

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tysm

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 2:43 PM

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fiery sparrow pretty sure he ment Zindex

No I definitely meant LayoutOrder, it's quite literally what it sounds like. So if a gui had a LayoutOrder of 0 and another one had 1, the one with 0 would be on top, or atleast that's how it's supposed to be working.

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LayoutOrder is a real property

gray rain Jul 13, 2025, 3:42 PM

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vestal oracle No I definitely meant LayoutOrder, it's quite literally what it sounds like. So ...

Your GUI is relative to parent

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 3:42 PM

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Uh what do you mean by that

gray rain Jul 13, 2025, 3:42 PM

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If you want the layout to be actually go by order, you have to use global

gray rain Jul 13, 2025, 3:42 PM

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vestal oracle Uh what do you mean by that

There’s a value in your screengui

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Called ZindexBehavior

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If you set it to global, it goes by zindex of every ui in the screengui

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 3:43 PM

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Can't try it rn lemme check documentation

gray rain Jul 13, 2025, 3:44 PM

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ZIndexBehavior goes by sibling by default

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But if you have multiple screengui, you have to use layout order if you want to order the screengui

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 3:46 PM

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I read it, I think I get the gist

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 3:46 PM

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gray rain But if you have multiple screengui, you have to use layout order if you want to ...

So Zindex takes priority over layout is basically what you're saying simplified

gray rain Jul 13, 2025, 3:47 PM

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vestal oracle So Zindex takes priority over layout is basically what you're saying simplified

Layout order only matters for screengui

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Layout order only is helpful for stuff inside screengui like if you put constraints like UIListLayout

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Or any layout

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 3:47 PM

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Ohh, ok tysm

gray rain Jul 13, 2025, 3:48 PM

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ZIndex is what determines what drawn first inside screengui

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 3:48 PM

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its 1am my brain isnt braining

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 3:48 PM

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gray rain ZIndex is what determines what drawn first inside screengui

Wait

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isnt zindex assigned to the screengui itself

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oh wait

gray rain Jul 13, 2025, 3:48 PM

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vestal oracle isnt zindex assigned to the screengui itself

ScreenGui doesn’t have zindex, only UI elements have ZIndex

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 3:49 PM

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i was saying zindex as short for zindexbehavior this whole time

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so uh

gray rain Jul 13, 2025, 3:49 PM

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ZIndex and ZIndexBehavior are different

vestal oracle Jul 13, 2025, 3:49 PM

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looked very stupid

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yeah

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