Configuring the Scene View Inspector

Gaffer 0.58 introduced a new Inspector in the Scene View. It allows you to quickly view – and in many cases – edit the selected location’s shader parameters.

We attempted to select a sensible set of parameters to display by default, but in keeping with Gaffer tradition, you can configure what is shown to suit your needs.

Adding/removing parameters

The Inspector has a simple configuration API that can be called from a startup script or similar. It allows individual shader parameters to be added and removed.

from GafferSceneUI import _SceneViewInspector as SVI

SVI.registerShaderParameter( <shaderAttr>, <parameter> )
SVI.deregisterShaderParameter( <shaderAttr>, <parameter> )

for example:

SVI.registerShaderParameter( "ai:light", "exposure" )

The Inspector will show a widget when the scene selection has a local attribute of the matching name, with the specified parameter.

Inherited attributes are not currently considered by the inspector.

For reference, the standard Gaffer registrations are made here.

Further Reading

• Gaffer 0.58.0: Scene View Inspector
• G4P: App strucutre and startup
• Standard Gaffer Inspector registrations