thanks brother. I'll let you know the outcome

I think it would be best if I restored the mentalray defaults. Is there a way of doing that?

The slightly bright parts look like a really overexposed photo.

So a slightly bright part of the image will just be a big bright glare with no details

I have tried rendering a few things mith MentalRay and the light areas of the image always get blown out.

I have even opened a tutorial file from a book with disc I bought, but my image blows out...

Hi,

I'm trying to import an EPS file into Maya 7 but nothing shows up (there is no error message, but nothing appears in the view).

I have downsaved the EPS file to version 3 and 8 in...

Just noticed that when the 'Maya Hardware' setting is on in the globals, it show the lights - but if 'Maya Software' or 'MentalRay' is selected, it only shows black.

What could be wrong with it?

Hi,

Total noob here.

When I just draw any simple shape, I can press render (on maya's render and mental ray) and I will see the simple object rendered.

But if I try to add any kind of...