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 | ||||
 |  | Create a new light. Auto-place lights allows lights to be created at the selected object in the viewport instead of the origin. | |||
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 | Make the selected geometry into a mesh light. | ||||
 |  | Create a light filter and attach it to selected lights | |||
 |  | Create a surface and attach to selected geometry | |||
 |  | Create a PxrVolume or an OpenVDB Visualizer. | |||
 |  | Create a holdout from the selected geometry | |||
 |  | Create an archive from the objects below the selected transform. If nothing is selected, create a stand-alone archive node to reference an existing archive. Update the contents of the archive if the original geo is still present in scene. | |||
| Open the Image Tool, 'It' | ||||
| Open the Light Lister | |||||
| a RenderMan Archive | |||||
 | Open the Dynamic Rule EditorShader Binding editor | ||||
 | Open the Texture Manager | ||||
 | Open the Preset Browser | Open the Projection Editor | |||
 | View statistics for the last render | ||||
 | Load the RenderMan for Maya plug-in | ||||
 | Open the RenderMan documentation in a web browser |
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