Maya Lighting Question. Technique for realism

Thank you for your time. I've been on 3D for a month now and I'm mastering Maya, 3DS, Softimage and Blender but I feel comfortable with Maya's modeling whcih I'm mastering more than the others. I did the Temple tutorial on the Learning Edition and I'd like to know how do you make objects look realistic. What kinds of light, how many and what value should I give to their attributes (tranlate, rotate, diffuse, etc) and what value should I give the temple's shader?

The shader I have on the temple was assigned a new material, everything is default and is called the templeShader. I'm using the learning edition mental ray as the renderer (default settings).

God bless,
Alvin

check the internet ! plenty tutorials to find about lighting...
here is one: http://www.andrew-whitehurst.net/tutorials.html

ding

Hey thanx a lot for the link, its fabulous .. especially for a beginner like myself ;)

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