Add Custom Theme opens the theme editor, where you create, customize, and save a color theme for your work in MeshInspector: the colors of scene objects, of the interface and of the viewport. Use it when the standard Dark and Light themes do not suit your screen or your task, for example when you need a different viewport background or more contrasting selection colors.
Where to find it
- View tab › Add Custom Theme.
- Or Home › Settings (Ctrl+,, macOS: Cmd+,): click Add next to the Color Theme list.
How to use it
- Click Add Custom Theme. A dedicated panel opens.
- In Ribbon theme preset, select the theme to start from: Dark, Light, or an existing custom theme.
- Change the colors you need in the Scene colors, UI colors and Viewport colors groups (see below).
- Choose the ImGui preset: Dark or Light.
- Enable or disable Apply to new objects only.
- Enter a custom theme name in Theme name and click Apply & Save at the bottom of the panel to save the theme.
Options
- Scene colors: object colors for selected and unselected meshes, points, lines, voxels, distance maps, faces, edges, features, measurements, brushes, and other scene elements.
- UI colors: backgrounds, headers, tabs, text, buttons, borders, toolbars, dialogs, and grid colors.
- Viewport colors: the viewport background, borders, and the colors of the X, Y, and Z axes.
- ImGui preset: Dark or Light.
- Apply to new objects only (on by default): the new scene colors are used for objects that you add later, and the objects already in the scene keep their colors. Turn it off to recolor all objects in the scene with the new theme.
- Theme name: the name of the theme file (CustomTheme1 by default). The name cannot be empty and cannot contain the characters ? * / \ " < >. If a theme with this name already exists, MeshInspector asks whether to override it.
Editing a color
The Add Custom Theme panel uses RGBA values: R, G, and B control the color, while A controls opacity. Each setting also includes a color preview, making it easier to understand which visual element is being edited.
- Hover over a color preview to see its detailed color properties, including the HEX value, RGBA values, and normalized color values.
- Left-click the color preview to open the color picker. Adjust the color by moving the selector inside the color field, using the color slider, or changing the numeric and HEX values manually. The picker shows the Current and Original colors, so you can compare the edited color with the previous one.
- Right-click a color value (or tap it with two fingers on a touchpad) to open the color format menu. There, you can switch between RGB, HSV, and Hex formats, choose the value range, and copy the color value using Copy as....
In the example below, the color values are displayed in the 0.00..1.00 range, and the Copy as... option shows several available formats for copying the selected color value.
Result
After Apply & Save, the theme is applied at once and saved. It appears in the Color Theme list of Settings and in Ribbon theme preset, so you can switch back to it at any time.
Tips
- Start from the preset that is closest to what you want: you will change fewer colors.
- Apply & Save stays unavailable until the theme name is valid; hover over the button to see why.
