Panels menu

Panel

Displays a menu containing the following:

Outliner

Opens the Outliner, where you can view objects and their attributes hierarchically.

Graph Editor

Opens the Graph Editor where you can edit visual representations of keys and animation curves (keysets). See Graph Editor in the Animation guide.

Dope Sheet

Opens the Dope Sheet, where you can edit event and sound synchronization and timing. For more information, see Dope Sheet overview in the Animation guide.

Trax Editor

Opens the Trax Editor, where you can create and edit time-independent clips of character animation. For more information, see Trax Editor in the Animation guide.

Camera Sequencer

Opens the Camera Sequencer, which lets you create and manipulate shots of animation to produce movie clips. See Camera Sequencer.

Hypershade

Opens the Hypershade, which you can use to create and edit rendering nodes, and to view and edit rendering (or shading) networks. For more information, see Rendering.

Visor

Opens the Visor, which you can use to show images of shading nodes you can create, those already in your scene, and those in online libraries, in a visual outline form. For more information, see Rendering.

UV Texture Editor

Opens the UV Texture Editor window, which you use to map textures to a polygonal model. For more information, see Polygonal Modeling.

Render View

Opens the Render View window, where you can test render single frames and interactively tune rendering attributes. For more information, see Rendering.

Blend Shape

Lets you create character deformations. For more information, see Blend Shape deformer in the Character Setup guide.

Dynamic Relationships

Lets you view or edit connections between dynamics elements such as particle emitters, collisions, and so on. For more information, see About Dynamics in the Dynamics guide.

Relationship Editor

Opens the Relationship Editor, which you can use to group and manipulate objects as sets and assign shading groups to geometry.

Reference Editor

Opens the Reference Editor, which you can use to specify settings for importing files by reference.

Component Editor

Opens the Component Editor, which you can use to edit data assigned to components.

Paint Effects

Opens the Paint Effects Panel, where you can interactively render strokes without rendering the rest of the scene. New strokes render as you paint them in this view. For more information, see Painting.

Script Editor

Opens the Script Editor Panel, where you can view and enter MEL commands.

Stereo

Switches the scene view to stereo mode.

Hypergraph Panel

Here are the options for the Hypergraph panel:

Hypergraph Hierarchy

Opens the Hypergraph, which gives you an overview of your entire scene, all objects it contains, and the relationships between those objects.

Hypergraph #

You can open multiple Hypergraph at the same time. Each opened Hypergraph is assigned a default name and number, for example, Hypergraph 1. This option appears only if you have opened one or more Hypergraphs.

New Scene Hierarchy

Opens the Hypergraph with scene hierarchies showing the grouping of child nodes under parent nodes in your current scene.

New Input and Output Connections

Opens the Hypergraph showing the most recent input and output connections in your scene.