Editors
- Animation Editors
- General Editors
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- Asset Editor
- Attribute Spread Sheet
- Component Editor
- Connection Editor
- Display Layer Editor
- File Path Editor
- Namespace Editor
- Channel Control Editor
- Script Editor
- Command Shell - opens the Command Shell window
- Profiler
- Relationship Editors
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- Relationship Editor - contains a list of relationships in Maya, including: Camera Sets, Deformer Sets, Partitions, Render Pass Sets, and UV Linking
- Animation Layers
- Character Sets
- Crease Sets
- Display Layers
- Dynamic Relationships
- Light Linking
- Render Layers - available if you run Maya using the legacy render layer mode. See Rendering preferences.
- Rendering Editors
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- Render View
- Render Settings
- Hypershade
- Render Layer Editor - available if you run Maya using the legacy render layer mode. See Rendering preferences.
- Custom Stereo Rig Editor
- Rendering Flags
- Shading Group Attributes (for mental ray)
- Hardware Render Buffer
- UI Elements
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The items in this submenu control the visibility of various user panels and elements in the interface, including the Status Line, the Shelf, the Time Slider, and so on.
- Hide All UI Elements — Hide all UI parts so only the panels and menus are visible.
- Show All UI Elements — Show all UI parts.
- Restore UI Elements — Restores the visibility of UI parts to their state before you selected Hide All UI Elements. If certain parts were hidden before you selected Hide All UI Elements, they will still be hidden.
Options in this submenu are:
- Settings/Preferences
- Attribute Editor
- See Attribute Editor.
- Outliner
- See Outliner.
- Node Editor
- See Node Editor.
- Content Browser
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- See Content Browser.
- Hypergraph: Hierarchy
- Review and edit relationships between nodes in a scene. See
Hypergraph overview. Select
Windows > Hypergraph: Hierarchy >
to open the
Hyper Graph Options (DG) window and set the options as follows:
- 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.
- Hypergraph: Connections
- Displays the
Hypergraph Hierarchy1 window. Select
Windows > Hypergraph: Connections >
to set the same options as for
Hypergraph: Hierarchy.
- Paint Effects
- See Paint Effects panel.
- UV Editor
- See UV Editor overview.
- Playblast
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Lets you preview the animation in your scene by outputting a movie or sequence of individual frames. Select Windows > Playblast >
to set the
Playblast Options.
The default output formats are the following: .avi (Windows), .image (Linux), 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. Select global to use the same format you have specified in the Render Settings: Common tab.
Editor Layout
- View Arrangement
- 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.
- Saved Layouts
- Displays the list of preset layouts, as well as ones you have saved with Windows > Save Current Layout.
- Save Current Layout
- Saves the current panel layout with the name of your choice. You can then choose this layout from Windows > Saved Layouts.
- 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.