[Joss]

Can anybody shed some light on how to use "file" nodes in Maya with MR? When i'm assigning some file node to a "color" connection in the MR diffuse material, object with it just renders totally black.
Am i doing something wrong, or file nodes doesn't supported yet?

PS: And also - is there any possibility to prevent Maxwll from being default renderer every time i start Maya(except of manual deletion of this code from MR mel scripts)?

[Olivier Cugniet]

you have to put the file in color map slot. Be carefull, Maxwell can only use RGB. Personnaly I use RGB TGA files...

[Joss]

Uhmm. But then why there's still this "connection square" near the "color" attribute? Aaaand....what about custom UV placement?

[pBarrelas]

i'm working with JPEGs and it renders alright for me. I use them because its a lighter file than the TGAs.
About the custom UV placemant, you do that normaly in the Texture Editor.