Question about Mental Ray Carpaint

[Tuss4]

I was following Dave_3d's Schnorbill tutorial, the problem is, whenever I render out the material, the base color of the carpaint never displays, I am only left with a ball that reflects the HDRI environment. I am using 3ds max 2008.

Thank you in advance.

Edit: solved my own problem.

[Dave_3d]

It would be nice of you told us what it was, and what you did to solve it. (I'm guessing no direct lights).

I tear my hair out at all the threads that have the exact same problem I am having - only to find those words "Solved it" ... and no idea what was done.

It is how we all learn.

Dave

[Tuss4]

what happened was I had a skylight in the scene, so I think it was screwing with Final Gather, after I deleted the skylight, everything worked smooth.