The Maya Help is accessible from the Help menu of Maya. The Maya Help appears in your Web browser and gives you complete access to the online documentation of Maya, including What’s New, User Guide, Learning Resources, complete Commands, Nodes, and API documentation, as well as documentation supplied by mental images on mental ray for Maya.

The left-hand navigation frame gives you tabbed access to Contents, Index, Search, and Favorites. Help information appears in the right-hand frame. When you first open the Maya Help, a legend appears in the right side frame, showing the various information types of the Maya Help.

To navigate to a topic

1. In the left column, in the Contents section, select the book with the topic you want.
2. Click the + icons to navigate down to the topic.
3. Click the topic name.

   The topic appears in the right column.

Navigation buttons are available on the top of the right-hand frame. These include:

• Show in Contents : opens the navigation in the left-hand frame, if necessary, and highlights the current topic.
• Add to Favorites : adds the current page to the Favorites list.
• Home : reloads the home page of the Maya Help
• Previous Page, Next Page
• Up one level : opens the parent topic of the current topic.

You can click Please send us your comment about this page at the bottom of each page, to send an email to Maya documentation about the current page.

There are also Index, Search, and Favorites pages that you can access by clicking the appropriate button in the left panel.