RenderMan Shelf

RenderMan for Maya provides its own shelf with shortcuts for many of the most basic and useful features of the plugin.

Button	Menu	Description
		Start a preview render.
		Start interactive preview rendering. Choose the camera to render from. Also render only selected objects (this selection also applies to preview rendering)
		Open the Image Tool, 'It'
		Open the Localqueue render manager

Button	Menu	Description
		Create a new light. Auto-place lights allows lights to be created at the selected object in the viewport instead of the origin.
		Create a new dome, portal or day light.
		Make the selected geometry into a mesh light.
		Create a light filter and attach it to selected lights

Button	Menu	Description
		Create a surface and attach it to the selected geometry
		Create a PxrVolume or an OpenVDB Visualizer.
		Create a holdout from the selected geometry
		Stylized Looks

Button	Menu	Description
		Create a RenderMan Archive
		Open the Dynamic Shader Binding editor
		Open the Texture Manager
		Open the Preset Browser
		Live Statistics
		View statistics for the last render