Rendering

Creating the orange itself wasn't very difficult, but that was because I had step-by-step directions to follow. There are quite a few settings involved, many I did not utilize. Trying to do this on my own would have taken double or even triple the amount of time. A few things that I ran into problems with during this tutorial. The first is that nowhere in the directions does it actually state how to render, it's just assumed that you know how. Just a minor point really as getting the above picture was not difficult, even though I do not like all of the words all over my orange. It makes it difficult to really see the applied texture. When the orange was complete there was a folder in the same hard drive location named ".mayaSwatches". Since nothing in the directions mentions this will appear I have to assume it is part of the scene I was working on and therefore necessary to view the orange correctly. I have zipped both files together and they can be found here. It would have been nice to get a note stating this was going to happen, so that I was not left guessing.