Topics in this section

• mental ray for Maya shaders
• mental ray Shader connections
• mental ray for Maya textures
• mental ray for Maya reflections
• mental ray Surface relief
• mental ray atmospheric effects
• Baking textures and prelighting in mental ray for Maya
• Use a mental ray for Maya shader
• mental ray for Maya shaders sample workflow
• Native mental ray light linking
• Render color per vertex in mental ray for Maya
• Create blurry reflections using mental ray for Maya
• Create lightmaps by baking textures and vertices
• Bake lightmaps from the command line
• Create an ambient occlusion map with the Transfer Map tool
• Exclude an object from an occlusion render
• High quality texture filtering with elliptical filtering
• Specialized workflow examples for mia_material and mia_physicalsky shaders
• Sample workflow for mia_envblur
• Troubleshoot mental ray for Maya transparency mapping is broken