Highlights are a pretty near feature ROBLOX added a while back. I’ve been using in them my game, World War Tycoon, to help players denote which plane is their plane/their teammate’s plane, and what is an enemy/hostile plane. It’s not perfect, since, at a distance, the team that has Navy Blue as its team color will look the same as the team with Black as its team color, but it works well, as seen below:
An issue that has started happening is, if there are a number of players flying planes around, random things get highlighted on the map. As planes get destroyed, or pilots land and leave their planes, which, in either case, the highlight goes away, the random highlights also go away, but you can imagine when you have upwards of a dozen people flying around, the highlights will get pretty noticeable… The blow image is a pretty mild case:
After researching this, it seems like this is an issue with highlights themselves, judging from the below topic:
And that is just one of many I ran across. This is weird, since this feature has been around for at least a year or two now, and is still buggy as hell.
As such, I am looking for alternatives that mimic highlights to some degree. Recoloring the planes in the game won’t work for a few reasons, mostly because the models are not easily re-colorable, and we already do such a scheme for identifying cars/tanks/general vehicles, and players don’t really like that approach.
I’ve been considering doing something I did in an old game, as seen below:
I’m not the biggest fan of this, as I think highlights are more aesthetically pleasing for the planes, but I hate how the highlight glitch ruins the aesthetic of everything else.
What have you done before?