- General Editors
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- Visor — Displays the Visor window. See Visor.
- Display Layer Editor — Displays the Display Layer Editor. See Display Layer editor.
- Namespace Editor — Displays the Namespace Editor. See Namespace Editor.
- File Path Editor — Displays the File Path Editor. See File Path Editor.
- Channel Control — Displays the Channel Control window. See Channel Control Editor.
- Script Editor — Displays the Script Editor window. See Script Editor.
- Command Shell — Displays the Command Shell window.
This submenu includes the following editors, which provide different options to perform your tasks.
- Material/Texture Baking Editors
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- Texture Baking View — Displays the Texture Baking View window. See Texture Baking View menu bar and Texture Baking View toolbar.
- Texture Baking Settings — Displays the Texture Baking Settings window.
- Hypershade — Displays the Hypershade window. See Hypershade window.
- Animation Editors
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- Graph Editor — Displays the Graph Editor window. See Graph Editor menus and Graph Editor toolbar.
- Dope Sheet — Displays the Dope Sheet window. See Dope Sheet overview.
- HumanIK — Displays the Character Controls window. See HumanIK in Maya.
- Blend Shape — Displays the Blend Shape window. See Blend Shape Editor.
Contains the following options for animation.
- Relationship Editors
- Click a relationship to open the Relationship Editor that displays its current relationships and provides options to edit them. For more information, see Relationship Editor.
- Settings/Preferences
- Includes options to set editor preferences. For more information about its options, see Settings/Preferences submenu.
- Attribute Editor
- Displays the Attribute Editor window. For more information about its options, see Attribute Editor.
- Outliner
- Displays the Outliner window. For more information about its options, see Outliner.
- Hypergraph: Hierarchy
- Displays the Hyper Graph Options (DAG) window with the Scene Hierarchy option selected.
- Create new Hypergraph panel — Creates the specified Hypergraph type in a new panel.
- Use the first one — Opens the Hypergraph in a new panel showing the first hierarchy view in the Hypergraph list.
Options in this window are:
- Hypergraph: Connections
- Displays the Hyper Graph Options (DG) window with the Scene Hierarchy option selected.
- Create new Hypergraph panel — Creates the specified Hypergraph type in a new panel.
- Use the first one — Opens the Hypergraph in a new panel showing the first input/output view in the Hypergraph list.
Options in this window are:
- UV Texture Editor
- Displays the UV Texture Editor window. For more information about its options, see UV Texture Editor overview.
- Playblast
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Lets you preview the animation in your scene by outputting a movie or sequence of individual frames, depending on the Playblast Options you have set. (Select Window > Playblast >
to open and set these options.) The default output formats are .avi (Windows) and .qt (Mac OS X). See also Playblast animation. You can change the default media player that launches when you playblast a sequence of animation using the Applications preferences. (See also Specify default media players.)
By default, Playblast generates a movie or images using the active view and the current time range in the Time Slider to determine the animation range. The default scale is 0.5, which makes the Playblast image resolution one quarter the size of the active view.
Tip: To create an image sequence instead of a movie, select the image option from Format drop-down list in the Playblast Options, then select an image format in the Encoding drop-down list. - View Arrangement, Saved Layouts
- Let you select a layout and layout/contents presets. These are the same as the layouts/presets available using the quick layout buttons or the Panels menu in a panel.
See also Quick layout buttons and Panels menu .
- Save Current Layout
- Saves the current panel layout with the name of your choice. You can then choose this layout from Editors > Saved Layouts.
- Frame All in All Views
- Tracks and dollies all view panels to show all objects or the selected objects.
To show all objects or the selected objects in a specific view panel, use the panel’s View menu. See also Center the view on selected or all objects.
- Minimize Application
- Minimizes Maya in your operating system.
- Raise Main Window
- Puts all editor windows behind the main window.
- Raise Application Windows
- Puts all editor windows in front of the main window.