Mental Ray Sky/Daylight System Won't Render Correctly (Black/Gray Background)

[lapetitelapin]

Hi All,

 

This is my first post, so bare with me if the solution seems obvious. In any case, when I go to render a scene, the background is gray or light blue, if not black. The physical sky is will not render. I'm not sure what I may have done, but even when I open a new scene, I am plagued by the same issue. When I go into the background settings to get the background to show in the scene, I end up with a completely black background-- no sky!

 

I tried to find a thread with my issue, but I couldn't. Please do not chastise me if one already exists (although I would feel much better knowing I'm not the only one!) I am running 3ds Max 2009 32bit on a Windows 7 Boot Camp partition.

 

Cheers,

VA

Edited March 12, 2010 by lapetitelapin
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