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The Inspector

The Inspector is a panel on the right side of the Fusion window that you use to display and manipulate the parameters of one or more selected nodes. When a node is selected in the Node Editor, its parameters and settings appear in the Inspector.


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The Inspector shows parameters from one or more selected nodes.

The Modifier panel showing a Perturb modifier

The Tools and Modifiers Panels

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The Fusion Inspector is divided into two panels. The Tools panel is the main panel that shows you the parameters of selected nodes. The Modifiers panel shows optional extensions to the standard

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Other nodes display node-specific items here. For example, Paint nodes show each brush stroke as an individual set of controls in the Modifiers panel, available for further editing or animating.


Other nodes display node-specific items here. For example, Paint nodes show each brush stroke as an individual set of controls in the Modifiers panel, available for further editing or animating.


Other nodes display node-specific items here. For example, Paint nodes show each brush stroke as an individual set of controls in the Modifiers panel, available for further editing or animating.

parameters of a tool. In the following image, a Perturb modifier has been added to a parameter to add random animation to that parameter, and the controls found on the Modifier panel let you customize what kind of randomness is being added.



Parameter Header Controls

A cluster of controls appears at the top of every node’s controls in the Inspector.


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Common Inspector controls

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