Mental Ray Water uestion

_Swerve_

Hi everyone, I need to render water with mental ray and really I have no experience with this. I can get pretty nice results with Maya software but I cant get anywhere with mental ray.

I am using Maya 2011 and every tutorial I am finding uses Max and an "Ocean Lume"...is there anything similar to this that I should be finding in Maya?

If anyone has any suggestions or tutorials that they could point me to that would be amazing, I dont need hardcore realistic results, i just need the look of some murky green water.

Vectroid

If you go in your material editor, under the mental ray rollout you will find a material called "Autodesk Water", it's the easiest way to get some quick water going on without much tweaking. It comes with some generic presets for pond/lake/ocean water and such. Most of them give you an option to tint the water colour. Just slap that material onto your mesh and it should be good to go.

_Swerve_

I wasnt able to find and exact material called"Autodesk Water" but i found one called Ocean, and with a little tweaking I was able to get some usable results, thank you

r_fletch_r

Read the mia_material docs, masterZap explains how to do water and many more materials.