Maya 2012 - MentalRay Diamonds

Hi everyone,

This is test I wanted to try out in Maya, as I wanted to try and create a realsitic ring with a diamond on top as part of one of my university projects. 

This project is still going on as I'm trying to understand how the different settings work, but if you are interested on how I made this please check out the video link below 

thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzObNlsv0W0

Please check out my YouTube video of a quick animation I made with the diamonds 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxVMWdlrbXQ