Bug on Highlight layer: Cannot create property '_needNormals' on string '#define NUM_BONE_INFLUENCERS 0 #define HIGHLIGHT'

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Hi,

Trying to use a highlight layer in any way gives me this error and crashes the scene when I try to add a highlight layer.

I tried using the basic Highlight Layer example from the babylonjs examples, within the context of my scene creation, and I get this error.
I copied the code directly from the example and pasted it in right after my scene creation.

It must be something within my scene setup? I dont think I am doing anything egregious.
looking at the code, defines is expected to be an object in isReadyForSubMesh, but it is a string.
Any ideas how would this happen?

Heres the stack trace:

babylon.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot create property ‘_needNormals’ on string ‘#define NUM_BONE_INFLUENCERS 0
#define HIGHLIGHT’
at t.isReadyForSubMesh (babylon.js:1:1678948)
at t.isReady (babylon.js:1:1096734)
at t.isReady (babylon.js:1:1895752)
at l.pointerMovePredicate.l.pointerMovePredicate (babylon.js:1:469149)
at mn._internalPick (babylon.js:1:1018598)
at mn.pick (babylon.js:1:1020158)
at e._onPointerMove (babylon.js:1:469371)
at c.eval [as callback] (babylon.js:1:472871)
at e.notifyObservers (babylon.js:1:63601)
at e._onInputChanged (babylon.js:1:457271)

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  1. you must ensure that your engine was created with stencil on:
var engine = new BABYLON.Engine(canvas, true, { stencil: true });
  1. After the point 1, try to insert into your previously working code
var hl = new BABYLON.HighlightLayer("hl1", scene);

and then check if it is successfully created

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  1. If point 2 is OK, try to add some mesh to highligh layer.
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Which Babylon.js version are you using? Can you test with the latest one?

I think it could be a bug we fixed in the previous months…

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Oops should have included that- its running on 5.27.1.
It was having same problem on 5.0.0. just updated and still there.

I think it may have something to do with scene disposing?
It works untiI I dispose the scene and reload.

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Hm I think I figured out what the issue was- I think I fudged some async code and it actually disposes and starts a new scene before the previous was done rendering. I’ll do some more investigating.

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Spoke too soon… Im kind of clueless again

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to clarify, the stencil option did not help

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Are you able to provide a repro in the Playground? It’s going to be difficult to find the problem without it.

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Maybe it’s the same bug than the one fixed here:

Try to test your project with an updated Babylon.js package when the PR is merged.

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Hello @aprowe just checking in if you still have questions