Visualize interactively in Viewport 2.0

On systems with sufficient memory and graphic cards, Viewport 2.0 provides large scene performance optimization and higher quality lighting and shaders. It allows for high interactivity: you can tumble complex scenes with many objects as well as large objects with heavy geometry.

To switch to Viewport 2.0, select Renderer > Viewport 2.0 from the Panel Menus.

Features supported

Viewport 2.0 supports the following features:

Viewport interaction

manipulators: move, rotate, scale
object selection
locators
heads up display
perspective and all orthographic views
Look Through Selected Camera view
mono cameras
camera settings such as Film Gate, Resolution Gate, Safe Action and so forth
Object Transparency Sorting
Playblast
object based Isolate Select

NoteFor the best performance and scalability, switch to Viewport 2.0 without enabling texturing or shading in any of the other workspace modes. You should work with only one workspace panel displayed in Viewport 2.0 and avoid switching between workspace modes.

Shapes

meshes:
- No support for multiple UV sets
- No support for polygon display preferences for any object type.
  This includes all Display > Polygons menu items, except for Display > Polygons > Custom Polygon Display > Smooth Mesh Preview, which is supported.
- No support for display of components or component selection
NURBS:
- Only Display > NURBS > Rough, Display > NURBS > Medium and Display > NURBS > Fine smoothness levels are supported. (This is equivalent to using the 1, 2, 3 keys.)
- Tessellation > Display Render Tessellation attribute (under the shape node) is supported.
- No support for display of components or component selection
locators

Shaders and textures

wireframe, shaded, and default material shading modes
adjusting material attributes in the Attribute Editor and interactively visualizing the results
bump mapping in all three modes: Bump, Tangent Space Normals and Object Space Normals
render nodes as follows:
- Blinn
- Lambert
- Phong
- Phong E
- File texture
- non-layered PSD File textures
- Checker texture
- All other Maya 2D shading nodes, including Layered texture and Noise, are supported as baked textures
NoteIf an object does not have a shader assigned, or is assigned a shader that is not currently supported, the object appears shaded in the scene view with a bright pink color. If a shading network error occurs, the object appears shaded in the scene view with a red color.

NoteAll other shaders not listed above, including 3d textures, are currently not supported.

Lighting

directional, spot, point, and ambient lights
For ambient lights, only a single non-directional ambient light is supported.
lighting modes: Use Default Lighting, Use All Lights, Use No Lights

Limitations of Viewport 2.0

Currently, Viewport 2.0 does not support the following features:

component display
polygon and transparency sorting
subdivision surfaces
Meshes are partially supported. See Shapes above for more information.
NURBS surfaces and NURBS curves are partially supported. See Shapes above for more information.
Non-TRS manipulators
tool feedback
paint effects
artisan
particles
fluids
joints, IK handles, and other rig controls
File texture image sequences
offline Playblast
area lights
image based lighting
image planes
render layers
stereoscopic cameras
viewcube
API-based hardware shaders (MpxHardwareShader)
API viewport extensions (Mpx3dModelView)
API-based custom shapes
API constructs

Platform specific limitations

remote display or indirect rendering is not supported on the Linux platform
for more platform related limitations, please see the Maya Release Notes