Highlight effect won't appear until one of the visuals-responsible property is modified

Images

Without modifying property

With property modification

System Information

  Time of this report: 6/10/2025, 00:53:48
     Operating System: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 26100) (26100.ge_release.240331-1435)
  System Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
         System Model: MS-7C56
                 BIOS: 1.F0 (type: UEFI)
            Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor              (16 CPUs), ~3.8GHz
            Card name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
  Available OS Memory: 65462MB RAM
      DirectX Version: DirectX 12
  DX Setup Parameters: Not found
     User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
   System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
      DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
             Miracast: Available, no HDCP

Reproduction file

hightlight_wrong_cache_optimization_repro.rbxl (238.8 KB)

The reproduction step is to drag a bandage with a mouse.
Search for the “FIXME” code within that place to get more information.

Expected behavior

The common way to bypass the Highlight instances limit is to have one model with a Highlight instance and parent models/parts under it.
However, this no longer functions as expected.
I expect that the Highlight effect will appear after setting the Parent property of a model to that container.
While playing around to find a “hacky” solution, I found out that modyfing any visuals-responsible property fixes broken behavior.
I suspect this might be related to some kind of cache optimization similar to the one present in Surface/BillboardGuis, however the “RenderCacheOptimizations” property of the Workspace is disabled.

Hello,

Thank you for reporting this.
I’ve opened the repro file, play tested, gone into the DraggableModule script to uncomment one of the lines under FIXME, and then playtested again. However, the highlight isn’t showing either way when dragging the bandage.

Could you please provide clear repro steps to make sure we can reproduce the error?
Thank you in advance!

Best,
M0bsterLobster

Sure, here is a video of the reproduction.

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