mental ray materials

…The mental ray render has a number…of advantages over the Maya software render, one…of which is that it gives you a lot of additional materials that you can use.…Lets take a look at some of the more popular ones.…Now mental ray materials are not found in the normal places, if we go…to the rendering shelf here, we're not…going to find any mental ray specific materials here.…If we go into Lighting/Shading > Assign Favorite…Material, we're not going to find it here either.…We are going to find it under assign new material.…

So let's go ahead and select a sphere.…I'm going to select my large sphere here.…Go under light and shading, assign new material.…Now, when you do this, it brings up a create node window.…This is the same menu that you would see in the hyper shade.…And, we can actually do this in the hyper shade as well.…I'm going to do it here.…So, you see assign new material, and these are all of the materials that…we have available to mine, and you can see that it's a lot more.…Then what the standard materials are.…