The Mesh Inspector provides appearance, rendering, interaction, and geometry controls for a selected Surface Mesh. It also includes the common Visibility Toggle and Transform Panel controls.

The panel can be used for an individual surface mesh or a group of meshes. You can edit the selected item's name from the panel, and most controls are also available from the Inspector Quickbar.

The current Surface Mesh Inspector with rendering and interaction controls expanded.

Appearance And Rendering

• Mesh Color changes the displayed surface color.
• Smoothness controls how smooth or rough the surface appears under lighting.
• Metallic controls the mesh's metallic reflectivity.
• Mesh Transparency enables transparency and provides a value slider.

Smoothness and Metallic are grouped under Render Settings and can be adjusted independently for each mesh.

Interaction

• Mesh Inversion switches the side used for one-sided interaction.
• Mesh: View Both Sides controls whether the surface is rendered from both sides and is enabled by default.
• Mesh: Hover Both Sides allows hover interaction from either side and can reduce performance for large meshes.

Geometry

• Cell Count displays the number of cells, such as triangles or polygons, in the mesh.
• Vertex Count displays the number of vertices defining the mesh geometry.

Related entries:

• Surface Mesh
• Inspector
• Drillhole Inspector