Fv: Rendering issues and their resolve!

For the most part of today I wanted to start my rendering to see how my textures would look.....The thing is they did not look like anything I thought. So after asking my peers and sitting through two of the digital set tutorials I finally fixed it!

 This screen shot demonstrates the issue I was having where I could see the texture I wanted on the right but when rendered with mental ray the textures were a no show.

After following Alan's tutorial - which I should have done in the first place - I managed to get it working! The red squared out area is after I applied the diffuse (colour), bump and specular maps like in the tutorial! Result! No do do that to all my models and I'm ready to try to animate again!