View Menu

The View menu contains Hydra Viewport and renderer settings.

Menu Item	Action
Toggle Viewer Mode	Enables a viewing mode utilizing only the Hydra Viewport and Timeline
Hydra Renderer	Select the Hydra renderer to enable for the viewport.
Hydra Settings	Renderer settings. These can be different per renderer.
Hydra AOVs	Select an arbitary output variables (AOVs) to display in the viewport.
Hydra Commands	Renderer Commands. (only utilized by some renderers)
Pause Render	Pause rendering. (only utilized by some renderers)
Stop Render	Stop rendering. (only utilized by some renderers)
Reset View	Reset the view to the state from when the stage was opened.
Auto Compute Clipping Planes	When enabled, auto computes the camera clipping planes based on your selection when you frame selected. Used to prevent Z-fighting.
Adjust Free Camera…	Set the near clipping plane, far clipping plane, aspect ratio and field of view of the Free Camera.
Adjust Default Material…	Adjust the ambient intensity and specular intensity of the default material for prims without a material assigned.
Complexity	Sets the complexity of subdivision meshes.
Bounding Box	Controls bounding box visibility.
Toggle Framed View	Resets the camera to your last framed view. (e.g. The last time to framed to selection.)
Frame Forward	Increases the current frame by one.
Frame Backward	Decreases the current frame by one.
Shading Mode	Choose a shading mode for the viewport.
Color Management	Select a color management profile.
Lights	Enable and disable the default Camera Light and Dome Light.
Background Color	Select a background color for the viewport.
Camera	Choose a stage camera to look through.
Camera Guides	Displays camera guides.
Display Purposes	Choose which display purposes to show.
Heads-Up Display	Choose which Heads-Up Display details to show.
Pick mode	Choose what prims should be selected when clicking in the viewport.
Selection Highlighting	Set selection highlighting settings.
Rollover Prim Info	When enabled, shows prim information as a tooltip when hovering the mouse in the viewport.
Enable Scene Materials	Choose whether to render materials.
Enable Scene Lights	Choose whether to use lighting authored on the stage.
Display Prim Id	Whether to display prim ids.
Cull Backfaces (GL)	Whether to cull backfaces. (only utilized by some renderers)