Mental Ray shader

[thehsbharadwaj]

When i try to assign a mental ray shader like the carpaint material i get this error: "PHEN 0.5 error 051018: phenomenon "mi_car_paint_phen" root not found" in my output window and my rendered polygon object is blackened. What does this mean?

[smoker]

Hi there. First off, tell us what software you are using. Maya?, 3dsmax? ???

Anyways, it seems an instalation issue (file missing)

EDIT: Oh sorry, didn'r ealize this threads belongs to maya users.

But as I said, you may try re-instaling/repairing, as the error states something is missing