Show Material Editor on Custom Inspector

Hi all,

I have a script with a custom inspector and a material property and I would like to show the default Unity material editor at the bottom of the inspector when the object is selected, but I can't figure out how?

Is it possible?

 

It is possible, but not really easy. Unity didn't really exposed much for that purpose except the access to draw something on the preview section. It's pretty much up to you to draw that in that section.

You're best bet is to explore the PreviewUtility class, and to reverse engineer what they did in Unity.

I ended up writing my own stuff to support all the preview I could imagine.

 

Hmm, its not so much the material preview I want as the property inspectors and shader selection drop down, so that the user can change a materials properties

Its a specific shader set so I will be able to hard code the properties, but I like the familiarity the standard inspector brings

 

You can write your own custom editor that replicate what the MaterialEditor does... You should get yourself a IL explorer to see how Unity did it in UnityEditor.dll

 

I have found a pretty easy solution, see:
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/429476/edit-chosen-material-in-the-inspector-for-custom-e.html