Highlight feature not working on actual mobile/tablet devices

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#12

This is most likely for efficiency, Roblox probably made it so when focus is lost on Roblox, they stop rendering the highlights, until focus is regained. But clearly something is wrong in the process.

#13

Blockquote UPDATE: I have a workaround of using the fill property on the highest transparency (something like 0.95) and then the outline will show up. But without the fill being used, the outline won’t show on mobile or tablet.

This solved the problem for me but I had to bump down the fill transparency to 0.87, it wouldn’t work if I had the transparency up any higher.

A compromise I had to do was add a IsMobile() check to bump the transparency down to 0.87 with the following code, leave the transparency at 1 on other devices (Source):

function IsMobile()
	if game:GetService("UserInputService").TouchEnabled and game:GetService("UserInputService").KeyboardEnabled == false then
		print("Mobile User")
		return true
	else
		print("Probably not a Mobile User")
		return false
	end
end
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#14

i can confirm it doesnt work on mobile for me either. its really sad because i like how it looks. i wanna use it for my all the characters in my game to have a cartoon style. another thing if any roblox staff are reading this could you please add a thickness setting there would be a set thickness so the farther away from the camera the character is the smaller/thinner the outline would be

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#15

yess. please roblox. im commenting on this to hopefully bump this in the algorithm my game loses its charm without the outlines. also if any roblox staff are reading this, please consider adding a thickness property that would be in studs or something. that way the farther away the character is the thinner the outline will be instead of it staying the same thickness as it does now

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#16

I’m going to definitely bump this; it’s odd that the highlight feature doesn’t work on actual mobile or tablet devices. Please fix it, Roblox!

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#17

Still waiting for this fix.

My game uses highlights as a very important core feature.

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#18

I just found out that it doesn’t work on Mac computers either. I hope Roblox will fix it ASAP.

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#19

I will need to check, its been working on my Mac for well over a year… will update this response after I check again.

#20

Its still busted on mobile. Very irritating…

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#21

Can this please get some attention and be fixed?

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#22

How is this still not fixed? I just came across this issue today

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#23

@Roblox Please attend to this issue, it’s very frustrating for developers.

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#24

This is a primary feature for my game, it’s incredibly frustrating to see a released feature not functioning appropriately on all devices, please fix this Roblox.

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#25

fix for christmas 25th december pls my wish

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#26

I don’t think that’s a bug! It’s just not supported it hasn’t worked since it released.

#27

bump… 2024 still not fixed, GUYS PLEASE FIX THIS!!

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#28

they Still not thinking of fixing it -_-

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#29

This is not a bug, it was mentioned by Roblox staff that highlight is not supported for mobile until they can improve performance due to low end devices not being able to handle them

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#30

Correct, they addressed it here:

#31

I noticed if you long press on mobile outline shows up but come on…