Highlight instances disabled

Reproduction Steps

1. Open the attached repro place (just the Baseplate but with a Highlight instance on the SpawnLocation)
2. Observe that the highlight does not appear

HighlightBug.rbxl (34.7 KB)

Expected Behavior

I would expect to see a highlight around the SpawnLocation.

Actual Behavior

No highlight appears. It is probably disabled.

Issue Area: Engine
Issue Type: Display
Impact: High
Frequency: Constantly
Date First Experienced: 2022-08-31 15:08:00 (-04:00)
Date Last Experienced: 2022-08-31 00:08:00 (-04:00)

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So i have seen this engine bug before and it can be annoying if your game is in need of highlights but if you handle highlights with respect you have a low chance of getting it

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What do you mean by “handle highlights with respect”? This is an empty baseplate with a highlight instance on the single part in the workspace. I’ve also been getting reports in my discord that highlights are suddenly no longer working in my games today, despite no changes on my end.

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I can vouch, all highlights seem to have stopped working. I’ve attempted changing adornee, name, parent, transparency values, etc. They just aren’t rendering at all.

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From my end, it seems like mobile clients are not affected by this in live servers.

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The FFlag that controlled Highlights also disappeared, though the Mobile one did not.

This might be an issue with them not correctly handling a flag removal more than them disabling it for a bug.

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Yep, it’s happening for us in Oil Warfare Tycoon.

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Vouch, this is a big part of my interaction system for visualizing to the player what they are interacting with.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/976573601979461642/985815532957745152/2022-06-13_03-56-56.mp4

https://streamable.com/kh08m9

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Confirmed, after the latest update to the studio, the highlight no longer works.

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This sucks, I just found out about highlights. I was messing around with them, and having fun. Are they gone permanently?

Edit: This has also been happening to me.

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Vouch

Highlights are a core part of my game at the moment and this is halting development progress.

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This affects many games, especially DOORS. Highlight is no longer present.

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An issue has been found and fixed in the next release.
If you are running in studio you can try enabling this flag to TRUE to see if this fixes your issue

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The fact that this slipped by is still worrying, how can I safely create my experiences in Roblox if a feature could be accidentally turned-off due to an issue, and I have to give my players a worse-experience until the next update comes-out. Some experiences rely on this feature working and having it off until the next update is not acceptable for them. I think the update rollout system could be possibly revisted since currently when issues like this occur, fixes have to wait until the next update roll-out, which is not ideal at all.

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Where can I find this Flag Editor??

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The flag editor is found in Studio via
FILE->Advanced->Open Flag Editor

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I can’t seem to find it

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Is that only if you have the mod installed?

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I am pretty sure that this is only available to Roblox staff and you might have not noticed that it’s not available to regular users.

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This is an Internal Mode only feature.

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As the existence of FFlags have been known for years now, as well as third-party tools supporting the ability to override them, there’s no real reason to have this feature hidden from regular users

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