Maya Beginner Basics: Outliner, HyperGraph/Shade The following is a 10-Part series on Maya Beginner Basics. The tutorials are set up in-specific to   game environment modeling. Outliner, Hypergraph and Hypershade are important within Maya modeling and texturing interface.  These functions are used to manage scenes in Maya and to create/apply shaders and materials to  geometry. Tutorial covers: Outliner Hypergraph Hypershade Maya Beginner Basics: Outliner, Hypergraph, Hypershade   OUTLINER Think of Outliner as a scene manager. It provides you with a full list of all objects within your scene. Window --> Outliner HYPERGRAPH Similar to Outliner, Hypergraph allows you to manage your objects within your scene. Window --> Hypergraph HYPERSHADE Hypershade allows you to create shaders, materials and work with textures. Window --> Rendering Editors --> Hypershade