How to Highlight Parts, Models, Players & More

[madzxla_tycoon (mads)]

Hey there, I am @madzxla_tycoon and I will show you how to highlight objects! At this time, highlights can be applied to models, players, meshes, and parts.

Keep in mind: As of today the maximum amount of highlights that can be rendered on the screen is 255 instances, if you disable a highlight it will still count towards the count, so deleting them while not in use would be best.

I highly recommend reading the official Roblox developer documentation https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/Highlight for all of the technical information and additional properties, this is just a quick tutorial on how to get started.

Highlighted part vs Non-highlighted part

Highlighted part’s couture appears behind walls (parts, objects, etc)

You can apply highlights to models, meshes, players and parts

📜 Summary

In this tutorial, we will go over:

• How to highlight parts & models
• Highlight colors and transparencies

✏ (Possible) Use Cases

• In a tutorial, highlight something to draw attention
• In PVP or multiplayer games, you can highlight teammates
• Have a task system? Highlight a part or model or pretty much anything to let the player know where the task can be completed
• Red highlights can also be used as a damage indicator

❗ Highlighting Basics

1. Create a part (skip if already done)

select workspace..

add the part..

and we have a part!

2. Insert the Highlight object

select my inserted part..

click the small plus..

search for “Highlight”..

and we have a part with a highlight!

✨ Customization

1. Colors

1. Open the Properties Tab (skip if you have it open)
   
   head over to the view tab..
   
   make it open..
   

   
   
   and we have it open!

2. Select the Highlight inside the part
   
   okay.. whats next?

3. Edit the colors!
   

   
   
   Which one do we choose for all these options?
   
   fill color.. alright..
   
   
   
   click on the current color (aka the red square) and pick a color.. that wasn’t so hard!
   
   
   
   amazing!!

2. Outlines

Outlines? You must like to customize things! Let’s get into it!

1. Open the Properties Tab (skip if you have it open)
   
   head over to the view tab..
   
   make it open..
   

   
   
   and we have it open!

2. Select the Highlight inside the part
   
   okay.. what next?

3. Change the outline color! (or disable the outline)

Outline Colors

all these options again… we need to search for OutlineColor..

click on the color property…

great job! (as always)

Disabling Outline

when will they remove these useless options? we need to search for OutlineTransparency…

finally! a slider.. now set the transparency to 1 (or if you don’t want it that noticeable set it to .5 or anything you want

and we have it disabled! now it looks like a normal colored part..

I hope this helped you understand highlights. If you have any additional questions, don’t be afraid to ask below! I would appreciate it if you would like this post to help it be seen by others who may need it.

Thanks for reading!
@madzxla_tycoon

[commitblue]

Woah I did not know how to highlight parts before. Wonders that its just inserting an object and mesing with its properties. Tysm!

[bluebxrrybot (blueberry)]

I believe roblox never made an announcement about this instance. It was a thing for months, but it did nothing. I noticed it was silently enabled a few days after it came out, and developers slowly started to also figure that out. I wonder if I missed a memo or something?

This instance was enabled months ago though, so nothing new really.

[madzxla_tycoon (mads)]

I’m glad that this tutorial helped you!

[madzxla_tycoon (mads)]

I haven’t also noticed any announcements from Roblox or anyone on the DevForum talking about this. At first I discovered this feature on a game I was playing and I didn’t see it anywhere else, until it slowly started to silently spread over most games.

[IcyMonstrosity (Yama)]

want to point out a little fact about the highlights of Roblox, as of today the maximum amount of highlights that can be rendered on the screen is 31 instances, you can get around this by inserting the highlight in a model but you may get a difference in results as the highlights wont overlap

• if you disable a highlight it will still count towards the count so deleting it would be best

Source: Highlight | Roblox Creator Documentation

[madzxla_tycoon (mads)]

Hi there, thanks for pointing this out. Personally, I doubt that anyone will use more than 31 highlights. You can always make some sort of system to prevent this with deleting and inserting the highlights back. You just need to understand when to do that process. It could be a system that if you are not looking at that part the highlight gets deleted, but I am not sure if that’s possible.

[4321Postboy (Postboy1234)]

I didn’t know that this existed, i did see it on another game i thought: “Hm, the devs probably made a system for this…” Anyways, pretty helpful tutorial.

[madzxla_tycoon (mads)]

Glad this tutorial helped you!