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    DAG Hierarchy

    This section describes Maya's Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) scene architecture, organized as a tree of transform nodes and shape nodes.

    Pages in this section
    • Overview of the DAG Hierarchy
    • Nodes
    • Transforms and shapes
    • DAG paths
    • Generalized instancing
    • Transforms with multiple shapes
    • DAG walking example

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