RenderMan for Maya provides its own shelf with shortcuts for many of the most basic and useful features of the plugin.
| 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) |
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| Open the Image Tool, 'It' | ||
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| 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 |
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| Create a surface and attach to selected geometry |
 |  | Create a PxrVolume or an OpenVDB Visualizer. |
 |  | Create a holdout from the selected geometry |
 |  | Create a RenderMan Archive |
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| Open the Dynamic Shader Binding editor | ||
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| Open the Texture Manager | ||
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| Open the Preset Browser | ||
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| View statistics for the last render | ||
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| Load the RenderMan for Maya plug-in | ||
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| Open the RenderMan documentation in a web browser |
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