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Swatch rendering for any
renderer
You can see visual representations of all shading nodes in swatch form in Maya. For example, you can now view mental images® mental ray® for Maya® custom shaders, and custom hardware shaders in Hypershade, when the appropriate renderer (mental ray for Maya renderer, or Hardware renderer) is selected. For more information on swatch rendering for mental ray for Maya, see Swatch rendering in mental ray for Maya.