Appreciate some light, so to speak . . .
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1. Did you turn on Preview Final Gather? Under the mentalrayGlobals make sure to turn this on when using the GI and Final Gather function. There's also a Preview GI and Caustics function, but I haven't messed with those yet.
2. Do you have "light geometry" in the scene? GI/Final Gather doesn't require any light source in the scene. It simply uses a default light and bounces that light off of geometry in the scene to cast light. In other words, if you place a plane above your model and give it a blue color, it will cast blue light onto your model. Color it white and it will cast a bright light. However, you have set the color "temperature" low. In other words, use darker colors for the light geometry.
Try going here to run this tutorial and see if these settings make it work. https://www.3dluvr.com/intercepto/maya_tuto.htm
Hope that helps.
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