Does Maya come with any Mental Ray shaders?
Yes. If you look in the Hypershade, or that popup window that appears when you click on a mapping slot next to an attribute of a shader, you should see a section called ‘Mental Ray’ (how surprising!) that has quite a lot of shaders in it. > Err, I don’t see them! Yes I know, hehe. If you have Maya 4.5 or even 5, chances are you won’t see these Mental Ray shaders. They need to be specifically loaded. I have a tutorial on loading these shaders here! Maya 6 should definitely have them loaded by default.
