Mental Ray is fantastic, its just very dificult to set up and use. It just takes time and practice. I refuse to use Maxwell due to a couple of things.
Does not work directly in Maya (MR does)
The render times are rediculus
Try Renderman better renders and 1000x faster.
Chris (formerly R@nSiD)
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