I'd suggest Arnold. The Maya software renderer is ancient and hasn't been developed in ages. It's just there for backwards compatibility at this point. Anyway, there's stuff on the YouTubes. A simple...

What are your results so far? If you're able to share. Honestly, it does just look like a simple black shader with really low specular roughness. The look really comes from the environment, which...

Check your image link because I don't see anything.

Ha! I don't even know why I have these sitting around. But you're in luck.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1spcOc0cp_lV8UjT0RUEHraQWvTbxcGDc?usp=sharing

Just from the first pic it seems like a camera clipping issue so check the near and far clip planes in the camera attributes.

Hey Murambi! :D It's been a while. Hope things are good. But yeah, about that renderer, I bailed to Redshift. I was forced lol but thank goodness because it's fast and straightforward, especially if...

Neat! I'll be watching.

I'm guessing frame is supposed to be the current frame. If that's the case then querying the currentTime command is what you want to do. Basically, anything within the `` will be evaluated so you can...

The Modeling Toolkit has the "Transform Constraint" option. You can select to constrain along the surface or edge and just scale the edges to your liking.

Models are just geometry. What engine can render them would depend on what kind of shaders are applied. Just swap out the Vray lights and materials and for arnold ones.