no UI way to open two outliners, however there is a splitter bar at the bottom of the outliner that you can drag to get two outliner panes.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Siew Yi Liang <soni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Indeed there is: > > As MEL: > > tearOffPanel "Outliner2" "outlinerPanel" false; > > This is because UI windows in Maya afaik are given specific names and you > cannot have two open 'viewports' which share the same name, so just create a > new one! And tear that off instead. And I agree, this should be part of the > default GUI, though right now I just save this to my shelf as a script and > increment the counter when I need a new one. :) > > Yours sincerely,