Is there any way to make a billboard gui appear in front of an actual screengui object?

[jolly depot]

I want the "damage indicator" to appear in front of the huge ViewportFrame that covers the entire screen.

[undone field]

Max out the Zindex + make the billboardgui AlwaysOnTop = true

hope that helps

[jolly depot]

BillboardGuis dont have a ZIndex property

[undone field]

the text label

[jolly depot]

and changing the ZIndex of the textlabel doesnt do anything

[undone field]

did u turn on always on top?

[jolly depot]

yep

[undone field]

r u using a color effect or a frame on the screen?

[jolly depot]

a frame

here's the properties for it

[cunning wyvern]

cant you just copy the billboard into the viewportframe?

[jolly depot]

doesnt look like it, no

[livid dragon]

Well this might be suboptimal but you could get the screenPosition relativ to the position of the Billboard gui and create a new Textlabel on that screenPosition.

This Post is the root of my Idea: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/how-to-get-objects-position-on-screen-or-convert-vector3-to-vector2/2196752/3

[jolly depot]

the player is meant to move around constantly while in the alternate world view so i dont think this would be suitable

[cunning wyvern]

another idea is to put a part infront of the camera and have a surfacegui on the side facing the camera with the viewportframe inside it then what you could do is all the guis with damage indicator have the always on top property checked

then you would get this effect

[jolly depot]

how would i set the part's size to be relative to the size of the screen though

[cunning wyvern]

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local part = workspace:WaitForChild("CamPart")

workspace:WaitForChild("Camera")
RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
local camera = workspace.CurrentCamera
local aspectRatio = camera.ViewportSize.X / camera.ViewportSize.Y
local fov = math.rad(camera.FieldOfView)
local distance = 5
local Height = 2 * distance * math.tan(fov / 2)
local Width = Height * aspectRatio

part.Size = Vector3.new(Width, Height, part.Size.Z)
part.CFrame = camera.CFrame * CFrame.new(0, 0, -distance)

end)

you have to put the surface gui with the viewportframe inside player gui and adornee the part in workspace

also surfacegui face = back