need help with mental ray
 

hi, this is my first try to do some thing without any tutorial ...
but i think the reflection is to high and the shadows to hard .. what can i do against it?

oh sry.. i ve forgotten to show you the image :D

http://koeln-rausch.de/mettenboerger/zahnrad.jpg

-go in your material attrubute and lower the reflection till you get stg nice.

-for your shadow, go in your light attribute play with the attributes under raytrace shadow or dept map shadow depending on what king of light you chose.

hope this helped!
:beer:

http://koeln-rausch.de/mettenboerger/hammer.png

okay , so far.. thx
but is it normal , that this image rendered 20 min?
i ve got 3.6 ghz 2g ram etc......

HOLY CRAP you have a nice comp. A bit better then mine! I dont see that often. Yes, it should take that long. You cant expect everything to render in 5 mins, and looking at all of those reflections, I would say that is a bit shorter then it would take my comp.

okay thank you .. as i said... i m "using" maya for a very short time .. so .....i ve got to ask some stupid questions