Navigate to Window > Rendering Editors > Hypershade.
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The Hypershade is the central working area of Maya rendering, where you can build shading networks by creating, editing, and connecting rendering nodes, such as textures, materials, lights, rendering utilities, and special effects.
To open and customize Hypershade, see Open and navigate Hypershade.
The Hypershade consists of the following components:
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