Hi there,
Im trying to get a decent render of anything going,
I was using Blender but came back to Maya as it's SOO much easier and more intuitive to use, especially the mouse
and keyboard shortcuts, and everything in the menus and even the stiuff under the right click menu on maya is just perfect.
everything is where you think it should be right? Blender is a nightmare.
But staight away of the bat, it makes beautiful renders on my i5 laptop with intel chipset graphics.
Like the renders come out beautiful.

But in maya, i've installed Mental Ray, and when i try to render i get a bunch of errors in the output window, and the screen just renders black?
I tried Renderman but im using maya 2016, and you can no longer get the 2016 version. Only 2017 which of course doesn't work.
And then i tried Arnold. This basically gives me a bunch of output errors too and won't render a thing.

How come Blender allows me to do high quality renders with no issues, but maya won't? can you help?
Its not my machine as i can render beautifully in CD4 and Blender.

Thanks, my first post!!