here are some screen shots

Maya software - just black and really quick -- 0:001 min


Maya hardware - doesn't render well because of lots of quadratic fall off and ray trace shadows..
but does render


Mental ray - renders as expected.
I obviously have a lot of work to do on this scene, but at least I can now continue.


But why isn't it rendering in Maya?


btw davarave -- 4,5,6, and 7 all work fine