Quick Access for Materials/Lights/Cameras - Autodesk Maya

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This tool lists all Materials, Lights & cameras in the scene in a simplified list. It also provides shortcuts to quickly assign materials, select all objects with a particular material, Get all materials on selected object, look through camera and renaming.

Opening Hypershade for minor material changes or searching for a material is slow, also locating lights and cameras in a large scene. So I created this tool to easily access these object types & provided few shortcuts for most repetitive tasks. Hope it's useful.

Installation

Extract the contents
Drag install.mel file into Maya viewport to create script shortcut in active shelf
Click on script icon to open Quick Access window.
Now you can change the Main drop down, to list out different types of objects in the scene.
Below image shows the tool window after it's installed.

Usage:

This tool contains a Main Drop down which controls the objects listed in the window. You can switch between Materials / Lights / Cameras in the dropdown menu. When you select materials the window will display all the materials in the scene, similarly for other types.
Full Reload Button : Reloads/Refreshes the window. When in materials mode after clicking 'Materials from selection' button, this button helps to load all materials in the scene
Materials from selection Button : Works only in Material mode .Only displays Materials assigned to selected Meshes. To return to display all materials in the scene click on full reload.
New Material Button : Works only in Material mode . Opens new material window.
Rest of the window shows objects in the scene based on dropdown selected. Each object is displayed as a button.

Object button shortcuts

LMB Click any object button like Material btn / Light btn / Camera btn will select that particular object in viewport.
SHIFT + LMB Click any object button like Material btn / Light btn / Camera btn will open a rename window to enter a new name for that object.
CTRL + LMB Click any Camera button to look through that camera
CTRL + LMB Click any Material button to assign that material to selected Mesh or faces in viewport.
CTRL + SHIFT + LMB Click any Material button to select all faces or objects having that material