Thanks for your reply.

I went into the camera attribute editor, and it does say it's renderable. (camera1) I also fiddled around with some settings in there, to no avail.

When it renders, it puts up the depth file. (I would think it would have a black, or better yet transparent background) and I expected the paint effects to appear on top, but they don't.

I looked at the layers, layers was disabled but I enabled it to see if that would make a diffrence. Sadly, it did not.

I can render the paint effects when I do a standard maya software render, they just don't show up when I check the "only render paint effects" option, which is what I need. (you see, it does not look good when rendered using maya software, but it does in MR)

Anything else I overlooked? Is it supposed to throw up the depth file like that?