Create bar

 
 
 

When you first open Hypershade, the Create Bar panel appears at the left. From this panel, you can choose among nodes that let you create different types of rendering effects.

Click one of the two categories to display the nodes that you want: Maya or Mental Ray (if the Mayatomr.mll plug-in is enabled). Different types of nodes are nested in sections.

Select one or more sections. Only the nodes in the selected sections are displayed in the right panel. To clear your selection, press in the search area.

Use the scroll bar to navigate through the Create bar and click to create the node that you want.

You can hide or resize the Create bar, or, you can customize the display of its icons. For more information, see Hide, resize or customize the Create bar.

Searching for a render node

Enter the keyword for the render node that you want to create. As you enter a keyword, the right panel of the Create bar updates in real time and only render nodes with names that match what you entered are displayed.

Favorites

You can create a Favorites list so you can easily access your most commonly used nodes.

To add a shader to your Favorites list, drag the shader to Favorites. Alternatively, you can the shader and select Add to favorites. The Hypershade sorts your favorites in categories to enable you to locate your shaders easily.

For more information regarding favorites, see Creating and using favorites.

Note

You can also create your Favorites list via the Create Render Node window and the Assign New Material window. Any Favorites list that you create in the Hypershade window also appears in the two other two windows and vice versa.

Creating render nodes

See Create a node for more information on how to create a render node.

For more information regarding the Maya render nodes that you can create via the Create bar, see:

Mapping methods

When you map a 2D or 3D texture to an object, you connect it to an attribute of the object’s material. If you are selecting a 2D texture, on the 2D texture to select one of the following mapping methods.

Create texture

Normal mapping. See Mapping methods.

Create as projection

Projection mapping. See Mapping methods.

Create as stencil

Stencil mapping. See Mapping methods.