My rendering menu is gone
 

Don't ask me how it happned, but when I click on the Render Menu it says:

also, another thing, now I have a new Shelf tab that looks like the attached picture. I didnt make it either. Now when I try to render anything, it just shows me a black window and does not want to render... :banghead:

2 days ago it was just fine..:confused:

ok... forget it... I guess maya works like windows... restart it and everything is fine :D

-Emo

lol, at least its on now :)

actually I re-created the problem :(

I notced it disappears when I open this project I was working on with Fluids.... (dont ask me why)....maybe it's a bug??

-Emo

I had the same trouble when I installed mental ray for maya public beta, seems to be a bug. What did fix it temporarily was to open the renderview and switch between to mental ray as renderer and back. If you set maya to use mental ray as default renderer in the preferences, it's fixed.

Right!!!