Advanced part highlighting.

[taniwha]

Ever thought your part highlighting needed a little more oomf? Ever wanted to use 0.90's new highlighting? Well, want no more, it is actually quite easy:

(excerpted from Extraplantary Launchpads' survey stake code)

using HighlightingSystem;
...
        public void Highlight (bool on)
        {
            if (on) {
                if (highlighter == null) {
                    var color = StakeColors[use];
                    var model = part.FindModelTransform("model");
                    highlighter = model.gameObject.AddComponent<Highlighter>();
                    highlighter.ConstantOn (color);
                    part.SetHighlightColor (color);
                    part.SetHighlight (true, false);
                }
            } else {
                if (highlighter != null) {
                    part.SetHighlightDefault ();
                    DestroyImmediate (highlighter);
                    highlighter = null;
                }
            }
        }

The HighlightingSystem is in Assembly-CSharp-firstpass.

A big gotcha is you are allowed only one highlighter component on a model: KSP will complain and shutdown all the highlighters. However, this means only that you need to keep track of whether you have already added one, and that it may cause some minor trouble when KSP wants to highlight parts.

It seems there are a few modes to the highlighter (flashing etc), but I haven't explored them.

[bac9]

They have simply integrated this system with no apparent changes:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/highlighting-system-released.143043/

It's probably well documented and described in that thread.