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. |
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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Lighting
Button | Menu | Description |
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Create a new light. Auto-place lights allows lights to be created at the selected object in the viewport instead of the origin. |
Make the selected geometry into a mesh light. |
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 |
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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Plugin / Help
Button | Menu | Description |
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Load the RenderMan for Maya plug-in |
Open the RenderMan documentation in a web browser |