Arnold Render Help/Tips

ozaffer

Hello I'm pretty new to arnold so I thought I'd leave this open to a direct issue I'm looking to resolve while being open to any and all suggestions for character render setup.

My main issue atm is that I can't seem to get highlights to show up in the renderer.

This is the base unwrapped with normals as a bmp, Curvature as incandesence, and the bmp map in a few other area's in an attempt to highlight detail without creating harsh maps.
Here's the texture Lambert in hypershade:

And here's the Render (no items as I need to unwrap still, but the base is unchanged):

This is with some spherical mesh lights (I've tried direction lighting as well, so far)

Thanks in advance

.Wiki

Arnold uses dedicated shaders, even though it renders the default lambert or phong shaders. Just use the arnold standard material. 

ozaffer

That turned out better thank you. Finishing my uvw mapping on the items then texturing/learning surface painter & marvelous.