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All right.

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In this video, I want to show you something very cool in robotics.

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This is a very interesting instance and it's called Highlight.

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And it basically allows us to add a border like a outline around our part that's highlighted.

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And you can actually see this border through other parts.

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Like if I were to look at this part through the base plate, you can't see it.

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But if I were to add a highlight around it, then I would be able to see it through this base plate.

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So let's show that real quick.

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I'll add a highlight into my object.

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Looking for a highlight.

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There it is.

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And now, as you can see, this white border appears around my object.

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And of course, it shifts as I look around my object.

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So you can see how this border dynamically changes to follow the edges of my object, which is pretty

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cool.

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So I can go back up and see how this border is just changing, right?

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Like, here's this line here and then I get out of view of it and then it switches to the other edge

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of the part.

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Very, very cool.

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There are several properties we can mess with in here.

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So right now this fill color is set to red, but I can set it to white.

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And then I can change the transparency of this filled in color to be fully transparent.

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So we only see the color of our part, but we get to see the outline around it.

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And if I were to go through my base plate here, you're actually able to see this outline right through

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the map.

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And you can see this as far away as you want.

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I can also change the transparency of this outline right here.

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I can make it fully transparent and instead only have the fill.

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So that way, when I look through the map, you only see this fill on my object.

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Which is pretty cool.

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Or I can make it mostly transparent.

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But if I still look through the four of my map.

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You can see this ghostly outline of my object.

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And of course, we have the ability to change the color of our outline as well.

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So maybe I want my color to be like a green outline.

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Let me make it completely opaque.

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And now we have this cool green outline around our part that, of course, we can see through other

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objects.

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Now, if you don't want to see this outline through other objects or you don't want to see the fill

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through other objects, you can change the depth mode to be occluded.

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So that means if I were to put a part in here, just put a part on top.

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I will no longer be able to see the part through this part here.

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I can no longer see the outline, but I can see that the outline is still there and it independently

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updates every time I rotate.

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So you can see how it follows my camera and it applies this outline around the edge of this part and

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it continues to update it as I look around the part.

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It's very, very cool.

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Now, you might notice this other property in my highlight, and it's called Adorning.

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And basically this allows me to select a part that I want the highlight to be applied to.

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So if I apply it to this part, you can see that even though this highlight is a child of this part,

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I have changed the adorn e to be this part.

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And this basically allows you to store these highlights wherever you like and be able to independently

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select which parts have the highlight like this one instead.

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Or if I don't define an adoring E and I just leave it blank, then it'll just default to highlighting

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whatever it's parented to.

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So that's basically the whole idea with highlights.

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There are several instances where you could use them in your game.

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For example, let's say you have a zombie game, a zombie wave game, wink, wink.

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That's called foreshadowing.

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And let's say they have to kill one more zombie, but nobody in the game knows exactly where that zombie

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is at.

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They can't find it on the map.

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So you can apply a highlight on the parts of the zombie once they reach a certain time threshold.

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So that way everyone in the game knows exactly where the zombie is at.

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So that's kind of it for highlights in this video.