When in State Context the title at the top of the Properties View will be green and marked with a Design State icon. All properties that are changed in a Design State will be highlighted green and styled in bold text.
When in State Context, changing a property that does not have a variable bound to it will open the following dialog:
The purpose for this dialog is that Design States can only change properties that can be changed at runtime, in the case of render extensions, only properties with variables bound may be changed at runtime.
If the change is intended to be a global change, then the user will select
.If the user actually wants to remain in State Context and change the specific Design State, then creating a new variable will allow changes to be made specifically to the selected model object in the context of the current Design State.