HELLO GUYS.....IM USING ..... Maya 2009 ...Just finished first model ...and want to render in mental ray ..but when i do I only get one sided render ...I cannot manipulate ..to see sided and back ..how do you render a scene that you can see all sides then export for after effects (with mental ray render .. does it need to be animated or what ..i want to have zoom attributes rotate etc ..but a clean mental ray version ...I watched a tutorial on exporting the nodes to ae ..but even then no render mental ray with full 3d control ... hopefully i explained myself well ...please help....................i need to know fast... Mental Ray which is a software renderer spits out two dimensional images, you can't rotate to a different view to see the bike hidden behind the truck, what you see is what you get, like a photograph. As far as I know, AE is not a 3D program, its more like a 2.5D so I doubt you can directly import 3D geometry, maybe there are plug-ins for that (I think there id a way to do it through Photoshop extended).