Material Viewport

 

Here the material will be displayed applied on a sphere or a cube (the default).

You can rotate and translate the visual by using the Navigation controls.

 

On the top-left corner of the viewport the file path, relative to the project, of the material is showed in green.

 

 Above the viewport there is the following toolbar:

The cube model for representing the material

The sphere model for representing the material

Click here to generate a new thumbnail for the material into the Project Browser

Click here to show a background behind the material. It is useful in the case of transparent materials.