Viewport Overlays

    The options that are visible in the pop-over depends on the mode that the 3D View is in.

    The next options are always present, independent the current mode.

    • Grid
    • Show grid in orthographic side view.
    • Floor

    • Show the ground plane.

      • X/Y/Z
      • Show the X and/or Y and/or Z axis line.
    • Scale
    • The distance between lines in the grid/floor.
    • Subdivision
    • The number of subdivisions between grid lines.
    • Text Info
    • Show text overlay.
    • 3D Cursor
    • Show the 3D Cursor overlay.
    • Annotations
    • Show the annotation overlay.

    Objects

    • Extra
    • Show details of objects including empty wires, cameras and other visual guides.
    • Relationship Lines
    • Show dashed lines indicating parents or constraint relationships.
    • Outline Selected
    • Show an outline highlight around selected objects.
    • Bones
    • Show Bones. Disable to only show their motion path.
    • Motion Paths
    • Show the motion path overlay.
    • Origin
    • Show the object origin of the active object.
    • Origin (All)
    • Show the object origin of all objects.

    Geometry

    • Wireframe
    • Face Orientation
    • Show the face orientation overlay. In the face orientation overlayall faces where the face normal point towards the camera are colored blue.All faces where the face normal point away from the camera are colored red.With this overlay it is easy to detect the orientation of the face normals.

    Show the motion tracking overlay.

    • Camera Path
    • Show the reconstruction camera path.
    • Marker Names
    • Show the names for reconstructed track objects.
    • Tracks

    • Change the display of the reconstructed tracks.

      • Plain Axes
      • Arrows
      • Single Arrow
      • Circle
      • Cube
      • Sphere
      • Cone
    • Size
    • Change the display size of the recontructed tracks.

    Mesh Edit Mode

    The next options are available when in Edit Mesh Mode.

    • Edges
    • Highlighted selected and partially selected edges.
    • Faces
    • Highlight faces using a face overlay that applies to both selected and unselected faces.

    Affects all selection modes.

    • Center
    • Show face-center points in solid shading modes.

    Only affects face-select mode.

    • Creases
    • Display edges marked with a creasefor the .
    • Sharp
    • Display sharp edges, used with the edge split modifier.
    • Bevel
    • Display weights created for the Bevel Modifier.
    • Seams
    • Display the UV unwrapping seams.
    • Edge Marks and Face Marks
    • Used by Freestyle.

    Shading

    • Hidden Wire
    • Show only front-facing wireframes.This is useful for a re-topology workflow.

    Tip

    Optimally this could be combined with the X-Ray display setting.

    • Vertex Groups Weights

    • Display weights in Edit Mode.

      • Zero Weights
      • Display unweighted vertices:

    None:Active:Show vertices with no weights in the active group.All:Show vertices with no weights in any group.

    Mesh Analysis

    Show the mesh analysis overlay.

    Numerical measures of the selected elements on screen as part of the text info overlay.The can be set in the Scene properties.

    • Edge Length
    • Shows the length of selected edges.
    • Edge Angle
    • Shows the angle of selected edges between two faces.
    • Face Area
    • Show the area of selected faces.
    • Face Angle
    • Show the angle of selected face corners.

    Tip

    Geometry connected to the selection is shown while transforming,allowing you to move a vertex and see the connected edge lengths for example.

    Note

    These values respect Global/Local.

    Use Global if you want the Object's scale to be applied to the measurements.

    Normals

    • Display face normals at vertices (split normals)
    • Display face normals
    • Size
    • The size to show the selected normals.

    Developer

    • Indices
    • Display the indices of selected vertices, edges and faces.
    • Edge Marks
    • Display Freestyle edge marks, used with the Freestyle renderer.
    • Face Marks
    • Display Freestyle face marks, used with the Freestyle renderer.
    • Show Diffuse Color
    • Show diffuse color of object and overlay sculpt mask on top of it.
    • Mask
    • Show mask as overlay on object. The opacity of the overlay can be controlled.

    Vertex Paint

    • Opacity
    • The opacity of the overlay.
    • Show Wire
    • Use wireframe display in paint modes.
    • Opacity
    • The opacity of the overlay.
    • Zero Weights
      • Zero Weights

      • Display unweighted vertices.

        • None
        • Active: Show vertices with no weights in the active group.
        • All: Show vertices with no weights in any group.
    • Show Weight Contours
    • Show contour lines formed by points with the same interpolated weight.
    • Show Wire
    • Use wireframe display in paint modes.

    Texture Paint

    • Opacity
    • The opacity of the overlay.
    • Fade Geometry
    • Show the bones on top and face other geometry to the back.The opacity can be controlled with the slider.

    Grease Pencil

    • Onion Skin
    • Show ghosts of the keyframes before and after the current frame.
    • Canvas
    • Display a grid over Grease Pencil drawing plane. The opacity of the grid can be controlled with a slider.
    • Fade 3D Objects
    • Cover all viewport with a full color layer to improve visibility while drawing over complex scenes.The opacity of the color layer can be adjusted.
    • Fade Layers
    • Decreases the opacity of all the layers in the object other than the active one.
    • Edit Lines
    • Show edit lines when editing strokes.
    • Show Edit Lines only in multiframe
    • Only show edit lines while in multiframe edition.
    • Vertex Opacity
    • Opacity for edit vertices (points).