Magari può essere utili a qualcuno.

Ho gestito nel metodo mousePressed chiamo un mio metodo che mi va a modificare l'Appearance della superficie cliccata:

Codice PHP:
public void aggiornaScena(int xposint ypos) {
        
PickInfo pickResult null
        
Shape3D shape null;
        
PickCanvas pickCanvas = new PickCanvas(JFrame01.canvas3DbranchGroupGeometry); 
        
pickCanvas.setMode(PickInfo.PICK_GEOMETRY);
        
pickCanvas.setFlags(PickInfo.NODE|PickInfo.ALL_GEOM_INFO|PickInfo.LOCAL_TO_VWORLD);
        
pickCanvas.setTolerance(0.0f);
        
pickCanvas.setShapeLocation(xpos,ypos);
        
        
pickResult pickCanvas.pickClosest();
        
    if (
pickResult != null) {
        
shape = (Shape3DpickResult.getNode();
            
JFrame01.PianoInLavorazione = (Shape3DpickResult.getNode();
        }
        if (
shape != null) {
           
Appearance appearance = new Appearance();
           
appearance shape.getAppearance();
           if(
appearance!=null){
               if (
appearance==appearanceOld){ 
                 
shape.setAppearance(createPolygonAppearance());
               }
               else  {
                   
System.out.println(shape.getAppearance()+ "  " shape);
                   
shape.setAppearance(appearanceOld);
               }
           }
        }
    } 
e nella creazione delle facce abilito la modifica dell'appearance:

Codice PHP:
 shape.setCapability(shape.ALLOW_APPEARANCE_WRITE);
shape.setCapability(shape.ALLOW_APPEARANCE_OVERRIDE_WRITE ); 
quindi problema risolto.