Doc:Reference/Panels/Shading/Material/Preview

The top three buttons governs the preview.

- The preview plane only shows the X-Y coordinates.
- In the sphere-preview the Z axis is the vertical axis for the preview sphere; the X and Y axes revolve around this axis.
- The cubic preview shows the material preview mapped on three sides of a cube, allowing to see the three possible mappings.

Plane preview.

Sphere preview.

Cube preview.

Monkey preview.

Hair Strands preview.

Sky Sphere preview.