# Material Inspector window reference > Explore the properties and settings in the Material Inspector window to change how a material looks. You can view and edit a Material asset in the Editor window. The Material Inspector makes it possible to do the following things: * Modify a Material or Material Variant's Properties * Identify and change its relationships with other Materials and Material Variant * Copy and paste its Property settings * Associate it with a shader or lightmap atlas See [Materials introduction](/engine/6000.7/manual/materials-and-shaders/materials/introduction.md) to learn more about Materials. **The top of the Material Inspector window, with the controls down the righthand side labelled A, B, and C.:** ![](/api/media?file=/engine/6000.7/media/images/material-inspector-controls.png) A: Inspector Controls B: Material Controls C: Material Hierarchy ## Settings Click Material Controls to open the selected Material's Settings menu. | **Setting** | **Function** | | ----------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Select Shader** | Move focus to this shader asset in the Project window. This can aid navigation in a Project with many Assets. | | **Edit Shader** | Open the source file for the shader asset that this Material uses. | | **Select Material** | Move focus to this Material asset in the Project window. This can aid navigation in a Project with many Assets. | | **Flatten Material Variant** | Convert this Material Variant to a Material and retain its Property values. Only available when the selected Material is a Variant. | | **Copy Material Properties** | Copy Material Property values so that you can copy them to other Materials. | | **Paste Material Properties** | Paste Material Property values into this Material from the computer's clipboard. Only available when there are Property Values in the clipboard. | | **Create Material Preset** | Create a duplicate of this Material's Property settings. See [Presets](https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Presets.html) for more information. By default, Unity creates the duplicate in the same asset directory as this Material. | | **Copy Atlas** | Copy the font atlas to the keyboard. Only for [Text Mesh Pro](https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.textmeshpro@4.0/manual/index.html) Materials. | | **Paste Atlas** | Paste a Text Mesh Pro font atlas into this Material. | | **Reset** | Reset all Material properties to the default values specified by the shader associated with this Material. | ## Advanced Options The properties the Unity Editor displays for a Material depend on the Material Properties defined by the shader that this Material uses. However, all Materials share three **Advanced Options**. | **Advanced Options** | **Function** | | ------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Render Queue** | Select a Render Queue. The Material's shader determines the default Render Queue value. Corresponds to the [Material.renderQueue](/engine/6000.7/script-reference/unityengine/material/renderqueue.md) property. | | **Enable GPU Instancing** | Optimize draw calls for meshes that use this Material. See [GPU Instancing](/engine/6000.7/manual/analysis/graphics-performance-profiling/reduce-draw-calls/gpuinstancing/gpuinstancing.md) for more information. | | **Double Sided Global Illumination** | Instruct the light baker to consider backfaces in [global illumination](/engine/6000.7/manual/lighting-overview/lighting-in-unity.md) calculations. When this option is active, back-facing polygons bounce light using the same emission and albedo values as front-facing polygons.**Note**: The appearance of back-facing polygons does not change when you enable this option because this option does not cause Unity to render back-facing polygons or add them to lightmaps.Corresponds to the [Material.doubleSidedGI](/engine/6000.7/script-reference/unityengine/material/doublesidedgi.md) property. | ### Additional resources * [Standard Shader](/engine/6000.7/manual/materials-and-shaders/built-in/shader-built-in-birp/shader-standard-shader/shader.md) * [Standard shader Material Properties](/engine/6000.7/manual/materials-and-shaders/built-in/shader-built-in-birp/shader-standard-shader/standard-shader-material-parameters.md) * [Shader introduction](/engine/6000.7/manual/materials-and-shaders/built-in/shader-introduction.md) * [Render queue](/engine/6000.7/script-reference/unityengine/rendering/renderqueue.md) * [ShaderLab: SubShader tags](/engine/6000.7/manual/materials-and-shaders/shaders/reference/sl-reference/sl-sub-shader-object/tags.md) * [ShaderLab: defining material properties](/engine/6000.7/manual/materials-and-shaders/shaders/reference/sl-reference/sl-shader-object/sl-properties.md) * [Legacy shaders](/engine/6000.7/manual/materials-and-shaders/built-in/built-in-shader-guide.md)