Shading a Bifröst liquid

- [Voiceover] With our Bifrost simulation calculated,…cached, and then saved out to an Alembic mesh,…we can now devote our attention to shading,…adjusting the materials on that mesh…in order to make it look beautiful…in preparation for our final rendering.…In this chapter, I will be using Mental Ray as the renderer.…However, the principals I show you should work…with any other renderer, such as Arnold.…I've got a version of the scene here…in which I have the renderable layers displayed,…that is the lights, and the room, and door most importantly,…everything else is hidden.…

We are using Mental Ray, let's check in on a…very important Mental Ray setting in the render settings.…I've previously chosen Mental Ray as my renderer.…I have a quality setting of only 0.25 for testing purposes.…Most importantly, in the configuration tab,…we need to double check to make sure that…use vertex colors is enabled.…It is disabled by default in the current version of Maya.…In the scene I'm providing it's already enabled,…but in your own scenes, you'll need to go in here…