Texture file not rendering in mental ray

[jackpheah]

Hey all, I've run into a bit of a snag. I'm sure it's something stupid that I'm forgetting to do, but I can't seem to get my texture file to render in mental ray. I have a phong applied to a sphere, and a simple bitmap file attached as a projection to that phong. When I render with maya software the texture renders out perfectly. But, when I render with mental ray, the texture file is not there, and the sphere just turns kind of gray. Any thoughts??
Thanks!

[DjVoyager]

Try changing the format of the file. Bitmaps usually don't go well with MR, usually tiff and targa is preferred.

[ceetwo]

I agree make it a targa it wont give you any problems