If your not working on the master layer, there lot of pain to be endured. Working with Maya's render layers is like working with a red hot poker up ya bum! It lts like a child you need to have eyes in the back of your head to make sure it does not screw up.
If I owned a small studio and wanted to waste a lot of time redoing shading I would use maya. What can we do about render layers, nothing!, because autodesk has done nothing about fixing it since some wonky person over at mental ray added them. Heck the words pass *contribution*<https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=firefox-a&hs=cLI&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&channel=rcs&q=contribution&spell=1&sa=X&ei=pdMqU5GFDoSihgfBjIBo&ved=0CCoQvwUoAA&biw=1606&bih=678>maps puts the shiver through me. Ben
