<function name="Paint" parent="PANEL" type="hook"> <description> Called whenever the panel should be drawn. This hook will not run if the panel is completely off the screen, and will still run if any parts of the panel are still on screen. You can create panels with a customized appearance by overriding their `Paint()` function, which will prevent the default appearance from being drawn. See also <page>PANEL:PaintOver</page>. <note>Render operations from the <page>surface</page> library (and consequentially the <page>draw</page> library) are always offset by the global position of this panel, as seen in the example below</note> </description> <realm>Client and Menu</realm> <args> <arg name="width" type="number">The panel's width.</arg> <arg name="height" type="number">The panel's height.</arg> </args> <rets> <ret name="" type="boolean">Returning true prevents the background from being drawn.</ret> </rets> </function> <example> <description>Creates a DPanel and overrides its Paint() function to draw a 100x100 pixel black rounded box in the center of the screen.</description> <code> local panel = vgui.Create( "DPanel" ) panel:SetSize( 100, 100 ) panel:SetPos( ScrW() / 2 - 50, ScrH() / 2 - 50 ) function panel:Paint( w, h ) draw.RoundedBox( 8, 0, 0, w, h, Color( 0, 0, 0 ) ) draw.RoundedBox( 8, 0, 0, w, h, color_black ) end </code> </example>