From the course: Maya: Render Setup System
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Understanding layers and collections - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya: Render Setup System
Understanding layers and collections
- [Instructor] Let's dive a little bit deeper into the render setup window. So, if I open my render setup window you'll see we have a number of different layers. So we have our default layer here but we also have layers for lighting, materials, as well as the matte layer. So let's select the materials layer. And I'm going to click this button here to open this up. Now, when we do you'll see that there is a number of sub components to the layer. So each layer can contain what's called a collection. So in this case, this collection is the geometry in the scene. Now, each collection can be muted or soloed. So if I mute that, that's that particular geometry in the scene and you can see here on the right in the property editor that we have a list of all the stuff that is in that collection. So if I wanted to, I could mute that as well, and that would be all of this stuff. Now, for example, the barrels are a separate…
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