This chapter showed you some tips and solutions for problems you'll face as you become more of an expert with Maya:
When to expect slow render times Some features inevitably require more time to render. Combine enough of these features with a large scene file, and the result is usually a long render time.
Unattended rendering of several jobs, or combining several machines to render one job Batch and network rendering are the solution to slow render times.
Marking menus and hotkeys You learned to create your own workflow enhancements in this chapter, without needing to know anything about writing MELscript code.
Rendering in layers As powerful as Maya is, you can still imagine worlds larger than what can be comfortably built in a single scene file. Rendering in layers is the answer. You also gain flexibility in changing the look of each layer if necessary.
Installing add-ons You can and should browse the available enhancements for Maya and install the ones that sound intriguing.