Rendering in Passes to be put in Shake

[tvholicjames]

Does any one know how to render a 3d object in Mental Ray and in Render passes?

I have a picture frame made in Maya and I am going to put it in Shake to composite my project. And I was told to render the 3d element in passes. Does anyone know how?

Any help would be great.
Thanks.

[tallacus]

okay, here is what you do simply go to the Render Globals, like in under the maya software tab go down to Render Layer's/Pss Control there you would be able to creat a pass for the beauty, color, shadow, diffuse, specular and so on by clicking "on". Dont worry this will also control mental ray output as well. And dont thank me Thank GOD for giving me maya 5 killer tips by Eric Hanson