Programatically enable Render Grid (Inspector)

Amerlander · January 22, 2020, 11:45pm

Hello,
is there a way to programatically open the Inspector with option Debug>Helper>Render Grid enabled?

thank you

Drigax · January 23, 2020, 5:13am

I’m not sure if there’s a straightforward way to get a reference to the renderGridPropertyGridComponent programmatically, but if you can, this method is what the toggle switch invokes. You can also always create your own render grid as well off of the implementation:

github.com

BabylonJS/Babylon.js/blob/0a3db306f8fb9be749adf4e04b6c7d2786fc3a5f/inspector/src/components/actionTabs/tabs/propertyGrids/renderGridPropertyGridComponent.tsx#L40-L77


addOrRemoveGrid() {

    const scene = UtilityLayerRenderer.DefaultKeepDepthUtilityLayer.utilityLayerScene;



    if (!this._gridMesh) {

        var extend = this.props.scene.getWorldExtends();

        var width = (extend.max.x - extend.min.x) * 5.0;

        var depth = (extend.max.z - extend.min.z) * 5.0;



        this._gridMesh = Mesh.CreateGround("grid", 1.0, 1.0, 1, scene);

        if (!this._gridMesh.reservedDataStore) {

            this._gridMesh.reservedDataStore = {};

        }

        this._gridMesh.scaling.x = Math.max(width, depth);

        this._gridMesh.scaling.z = this._gridMesh.scaling.x;

        this._gridMesh.reservedDataStore.isInspectorGrid = true;

        this._gridMesh.isPickable = false;



        var groundMaterial = new GridMaterial("GridMaterial", scene);

        groundMaterial.majorUnitFrequency = 10;

        groundMaterial.minorUnitVisibility = 0.3;

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@Deltakosh, ever control the inspector from a scene?

Evgeni_Popov · January 23, 2020, 12:47pm

You can also have a look here: Toggle grid from inspector via code

Deltakosh · January 23, 2020, 5:23pm

You can ask the inspector to open on the debug tab but you cannot force the render grid to be enabled (but @Evgeni_Popov showed you an option to do it manually ;))

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