Originally posted by Thomas Mahler Edit: I also want to know if there´s some sort of Global Illumination Renderer for Maya. I tried this Alpha version of Brazil and liked it a lot. If there is something like that, even better... :-) well, maya (since version 5.0) comes with mental ray as alternative to mayas native renderer. just try maya out for free and download the personal learning editon from https://www.aliaswavefront.com/ - you are not allowed to use it commercially and you have watermarks. the current ple is 4.5 - so no mr, as that is available as free plugin only to the 4.5 commercial version, and included in 5.0. hope that helps some