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:

• Create bar
• Sorting Bins
• Tabs
  • Hypershade top tabs
  • Work Area tab (bottom tab)
• Toolbars
  • Hypershade main toolbar
  • Hypershade tab toolbar
• Hypershade tab filter
• Hypershade menus
  NoteTo display the Hypershade/Persp in a vertical side-by-side orientation, click the Hypershade/Persp quick layout button.