I want a shader that creates pink firey water! Can you make it for me?
Sorry love, the pink firey water will have to wait. I’m afraid I don’t know much programming at all, therefore I can’t write you a new shader! Cheer up, someone who does will surely need pink firey water some day too. > What are the files that make up a Mental Ray shader? When you download a Mental Ray shader for Maya, there are typically 4 or 5 types of files included: *.dll – The dll files are the actual shader code. They are what give all the instructions on what the shader is supposed to do when it’s rendered. These files go in your: “C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya6.5\mentalray\lib” folder. *.mi – The files that end in .mi are written in the Mental Images MI format. They are just text files. They give Mental Ray some general information about the shader, and tell Maya what attributes you would like to have present inside Maya for tuning the shader. They also tell Maya what section of the Hypershade the shader should be found in (ie Textures or Materials etc). These files go in your: “
