The following tutorial with walk you through how to setup clay renders in 3D Studio Max using Mental Ray, 2 lights and a single texture.
This is what I use at work for concept renders. This is NOT the only way to create a scene like this, but this is what I use so I wanted to share it with the members here.
Enjoy.
PDF File: I made this a PDF download because the it's best to print this out and have it next to you rather then trying to switch back and forth between Max and Acrobat.
http://www.scifi-meshes.com/aceman/clay_renders_09.pdf
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just got past fundamentals
A clay render tutorial so i can show off my models great lines
A godsend...
Danke
Another very fast, though not so tidy way of getting an in production render, that doesnt require "so much" work would be mental rays Ambient Occulsion shader.