HDR in Maya 8.5

[scooter79rs]

Does anyone here know how to set HDR in Maya, I was shown how to at School, about 8 weeks ago. And I've forgotten how to do it, I can remember how to do it in Max. But I don't want to import most of my Maya models into Max.

[yuriynyr]

to add an HDR map in maya... go into the render settings for maya(only works with mental ray), and scroll down the render settings, scroll down to the environment drop-down menu, and click on image based lighting.

it will open in the attribute editor, and then just browse for the HDR under "image name".