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RenderMan for Maya provides a RenderMan menu in Maya's main menu bar, for easy access to features of the plug-in.
Render
Starts a render of the current frame to "it" or Maya's Render view.
IPR Render
Starts an interactive preview rendering session.
Batch Render
Starts a batch render.
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.
Archive >
Export, Import, or select RenderMan Archive nodes
Diagnose >
View Statistics
Opens the statistics file from the last render in a web browser
View RIB
Opens a newly generated RIB file in a text editor (note we do not create a RIB when rendering inside Maya)
View RIB for selection
Generates a RIB file in a text editor containing the geometry calls for the current selection in Maya
Script Editor Logging Level
Choose the amount of verbosity you desire to be output into the Maya Script Editor. Debug has the most output, useful for problem solving, with Info being the least and displaying progress information.
Disk Logging Level
Output logs written to disk and have the same options as Script Editor above but include Error, Critical, and Warning message levels.
About RfM...
Opens a dialog showing version and build number information