Contents
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. |
 |  | Create a new light. |
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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 | ||
| Open the Dynamic Rule 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 |