RenderMan for Maya provides its own shelf with shortcuts for many of the most basic and useful features of the plugin.
Rendering
| Button | Menu | Description |
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|  | Start a preview render. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| Make the selected geometry into a mesh light. | |
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| Create a light filter and attach it to selected lights |
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Shading
| Button | Menu | Description |
|---|---|---|
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| Create a surface and attach it to the selected geometry |
|  | Create a PxrVolume or an OpenVDB Visualizer. |
|  | Create a holdout from the selected geometry |
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| Stylized Looks |
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Archive / Texture / Statistics
| Button | Menu | Description |
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| 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 |
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