this is what my plugin manager looks like - and thats not the way it is suppose to be.

huh? do you use any special skins for maya?
I have maya 5,too but my plugin manager looks different...

He's using Maya for the Mac

ya... no skins, jsut maya... and all that stuff is missing....

oh maya for mac. Then I can't help you.
MAye click on the little grey arrow.

FS, try clicking the Browse button on the bottom and then go into your Plugins folder to see if you can start it like that...

-Emo

Eagle, the arrows are pointing down. Which means that the section is opened up. Hope you get this problem fixed soon forum. I wanna see more of your car :)

i have maya 5 for mac too and i never have this problem (but mental ray doesn t work on mine ;) )

i am going to say screw fixing maya, i jsut won't render out with MR or Vector yet... mabye when i am done. here is an update of the tire.. which needed it. C&C? PS. its a low profile tire.. for street racing/ sport tire - so it doesn't need huge offroad tread.

I am not sure but is it a diplacement map?

its a bump, and i just noticed that the tread was inside out (the groves stuck out) - so here is an update - and i am rendering the car with the new tires now

Looks good so far man :)

here is the shifter knob

here is the top of it

here is a render of the car (body paint shader made by gforce)