RenderMan for Maya provides a RenderMan menu in Maya's main menu bar, for easy access to features of the plug-in.

IPR Render

Starts an interactive preview rendering session.

Preview Render 

Starts a render of the current frame to "it" or Maya's Render view.

 IPR Batch Preview Render

Starts an interactive preview rendering sessiona batch render to the display or 'it'.

Batch Render

Starts a batch render. This defaults to Mayabatch and not RIB. You can change this in the Maya Preferences under RenderMan.

Bake Render

Starts a bake render, which is a kind of batch render that bakes textures without illumination.  Select the option box to access preferences for spooling to Tractor or LocalQueue.

Render Settings...

Opens Maya's Render Settings window with RenderMan as the current renderer.

Preferences

Opens the Maya preferences and RenderMan section.

Tools

Open common tools like 'it', the texture manager and more instead of using the shelf icons.

Archive >

Export, Import, or select RenderMan Archive nodes

Diagnose >

View Statistics

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Output logs written to disk and have the same options as Script Editor above but include Error, Critical, and Warning message levels. .

Utilities

Rebuild the presets for the render settings quality selections.

License

Options to check the licensing of the plugin. You can retry checking out a license from your server or open the license app to view available licenses

Help

Useful links to documentation and forums. This opens in your default browser.

About RfM...

Opens a dialog showing version and build number information

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