Selection

Click any object in the world to see what it is and where it comes from. Selection controls what a click can pick and how the picked object is marked.

Choose what you can click

Open Selection

Click Selection in the dock.

Selection panel with category toggles for Objects, Structures, Vegetation, Terrain, and Water, and a Marking style selector, set to a customized combination — Interactive categories and Marking style, shown with a customized setup: Vegetation off and Highlight selected.

Pick the categories

Turn on the categories you want to click. A category that is off cannot be picked: clicking a surface in it selects nothing and clears the current selection.

Pick a Marking style

Choose how the hovered and selected object is drawn.

Category	Includes	Default
Objects	Props, street furniture, parked vehicles, and signs up to 20 m in their largest dimension.	On
Structures	Buildings, blocks, and long walls over 20 m.	On
Vegetation	Trees and brush.	On
Terrain	Roads, sidewalks, terrain sheets, and decals.	Off
Water	Sea, rivers, pools, and foam.	Off

Marking style	Draws
Box	The edges of the object’s hit volume. Default.
Outline	The model outline, hidden where other geometry covers it.
Highlight	An outline plus a colored veil over the texture.
Both	The box and the highlight together.

With every category off, the panel warns With everything off, clicking selects nothing.

Inspect an object

Left-click an object. The Object card shows its details. Press Esc or click × on the Object card to remove it.

Object card for a selected bench with Summary and Box readouts, and the bench outlined by its hit box in the world — A bench selected with the Box style, and its Object card.

Readout	Meaning
Mesh, YMAP, Entity	The model, the map file it is placed from, and the placement.
Category	One of the categories above.
Level	The detail level of what you clicked. MLO objects show Interior.
Source	Resident content loads when the map opens. Streaming content loads as you get close and unloads as you leave.
Geometries	Number of geometries in the model.
Position, Dimensions	Center and size of the box. The center is not the camera position.
Distance	Distance from the camera at the moment you clicked.
LOD, Children LOD	Distance at which the object stops drawing, and the distance at which its detailed children replace it. — when there is none.

Opening Configure the view, turning off the selected object’s category, or clearing the selection removes the card.

Open the object in Projects

Open in Projects starts a task from the selected object. If no project is open, the line under the button says Pick the project in the Projects tab. Otherwise it reads In project ….

Object card with the Open in Projects menu listing Create interior, Edit geometry, and Edit texture — The Open in Projects menu.

Menu item	What it starts
Create interior	An interior at the object’s position and bounds.
Edit geometry	Geometry work on the selected instance. It shows Reading model… while the model loads.
Edit texture	A texture task for the selected model.

Save your open project work before you use a creation action.

Troubleshooting

With everything off, clicking selects nothing.

All categories are off. Turn on at least one in Selection.

Map

Display

Choose what you can click

Inspect an object

Open the object in Projects

Troubleshooting

​Choose what you can click

​Inspect an object

​Open the object in Projects

​Troubleshooting

Choose what you can click

Inspect an object

Open the object in Projects

Troubleshooting