So this is driving me crazy. I’ve tried triangulating the mesh, cleaning up the mesh, exporting and importing it into a new scene, all with no luck. The face normals are all fine and the geo is really not that complicated. I could quickly re-model, but I want to solve the problem in case it ever happens again.
Anyone have any ideas what’s going on here? Maya Software renders it fine, it’s just Mental Ray.
http://coryanderson.net/RenderIssue.jpg