Highlight Not Appearing when Player Equips Tool

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Hi!

I have this gear that if you equip it, your character will have a highlight. I play-tested my game, gave myself the gear, but no highlight. Checked the Developer Console, no errors or warnings.

I believe that my LocalScript is somewhat of the problem, but I can’t be the one that can tell that since I’m getting back into coding on Roblox. Would anyone let me know what the issue is and potentially fixes that I can do?

Both ServerScript and LocalScript will be shown below.

ServerScript:

--// Variables
local Highlight = script.Highlight

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Remotes = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Remotes")
local Remote = Remotes.SpecialTitleEquipped

--// Script
Remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, data)
	if data == "equipped" then
		local HighlightClone = Highlight:Clone()
		HighlightClone = player.Character
	elseif data == "unequipped" then
		local HighlightClone = player.Character:WaitForChild("Highlight")
		if HighlightClone.Parent == player.Character then
			HighlightClone:Destroy()
		end
	end
end)

LocalScript

--// Variables
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Tool = script.Parent

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Remotes = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Remotes")

--// Script
Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	Remotes.SpecialTitleEquipped:FireServer("equipped")
end)
Tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	Remotes.SpecialTitleEquipped:FireServer("unequipped")
end)
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Can you add some debugging statements on the ServerScript?, check if the remotevent its working correctly, if the highlight was cloned and whatnot.

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I put for both Client & Server to double-check.
Says the highlight was added, but it didn’t get added, so there wasn’t any highlight to delete.

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You aren’t setting HightlightClone’s parent to the character, instead you’re setting HighlightClone as the players character

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I do want the highlight to be on the player who is equipping the tool.

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Huh? Isn’t all you need in that case to set the Hightlight’s Parent to t he Character? Because all youre doing is trying to make the Highlight your Character, which does not really make much sense haha. Lmk if this helped and if that’s what u needed.

HighlightClone.Parent = player.Character
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Ohh, I didn’t realize I didn’t need to have .Parent on my highlight…
I just tested it out, and it still didn’t seem to work.

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what exactly is “HighlightClone”

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It’s the clone of the Highlight that’s a child to the ServerScript.
It’s there so more than 1 person can have a highlight.

10

is it enabled? is the filltransparency < 1?

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Hi so I just tried it out myself and it works for me. All I changed was 1 line feel free to try it out yourself.

local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Remotes = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Remotes")
local Remote = Remotes.SpecialTitleEquipped

--// Script
Remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, data)
	print(data)
	if data == "equipped" then
		print("True")
		local HighlightClone = script.Highlight:Clone()
		HighlightClone.Parent = player.Character
	elseif data == "unequipped" then
		local HighlightClone = player.Character:WaitForChild("Highlight")
		if HighlightClone.Parent == player.Character then
			HighlightClone:Destroy()
		end
	end
end)```
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It’s enabled and I have the outline property fully visible.
I even have it AlwaysOnTop.

13

All I needed was to remove the local Highlight = script.Highlight?
I am shocked, but this indeed fixed my script.

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I’m glad I could help you! haha

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