Roblox Viewport Frames Are Actually Insane...

Meshes with erased vertex alpha render nothing behind them, and in that sense are essentially masks for the ViewportFrame. In this Roblox Studio Tutorial, I present this amazing trick with ViewportFrame masking.

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Chapters:
0:00 Devforum
1:29 Example 1
3:30 Masking Character
4:53 Portals
7:34 Puddle Reflection
8:47 Moving Text
9:41 Waving Text
10:02 Masked Images
11:08 Creating Meshes with 0 alpha

Music used in the video:
Aviation Hall - easy & cool coffee jazz - no copyright provided by FREESOUND MUSIC:
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[naaboom]

i really appreciate all these videos. most people gatekeep these methods to themselves

[ProSureString]

I actually made a minimal rendered in 3D yesterday with this, can confirm it’s awesome!

[bortokoo]

This is crazy cool!
Just think about how many more hidden ways there are to trick the Roblox engine that nobody has discovered yet

[kynze]

I never knew viewportframes could do that tho it's a shame that you need to use a 3rd party software to do the masking. The only example i whould use is the puddle reflection test, he did this effect right and gives a pretty clear reflection.

[skwrecital]

9:55 looks like some kind of puzzle rb battles would make

[nilpyc]

someone should make a horror game that heavy use this effort like the monster have the effects on him or something (edit: this would be good for horror games

[electrobean]

they should just let developers write their own shaders and use custom framebuffers, i feel bad for whoever has to fake a stencil buffer effect like this

[TelaGamer]

I managed to break it down (in the worst way possible) and put in my game as a creepy effect/glitch, i could also change the map

[Noon]

i so hope roblox does not fix this, its brilliant!

[Nientaledfaux]

I wanna make something like the first one shown for a narrative game

[nice_to_meet_you]

Dear Paul1Rb,

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[yahuirr]

so shaders could be a thing on roblox?
like a toon shade or smth

[venotheshoot]

I'm wondering if you could get the viewport frame to show models moving in it (I have a viewport frame that shows radar of map)

[zerotx]

is it viewable from another client/player ?