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 This directory contains mental ray shader examples
 that uses maya specific information.
 
 - mayaShaderExample.mi
 This file contains declaration of shaders included in the examples.
 
 - light link relationship
mental ray for maya plugin access light linking relationship
using Maya API (MLightLinks)
and generates a global light-object table.
Shaders can access this table by using 
mayabase_lightlink_get and mayabase_lightlink_check.
See the example shader in "lightlink" directory.

- shader state
Some maya specific information is stored in the shader state.
Shaders can access this information using
mayabase_stateitem_get.
The full list of shader state items is in mayaapi.h.
"emitLight" contains one example of using mayabase_stateitem_get
to get "emit diffuse" and "emit specular" values of the light.