Ive started experimenting with rendering in MEP, and I am looking for some tips and tricks particularly in the lighting and materials catagories. Generally I would be rendering a mechanical room, these rooms have no daylight portals (windows) and minimal lighting. I have cranked up the wattage on the lights, toggled to different/brighter IES files, but I am still not getting the lighting quality I am looking for in my rendering... what gives? Also, I have assigned metal materials to my ducts/equipment/pipes/elec cabinets but they just arent turning out shiney. I really would like a high quality rendering for marketing purposes. Do I need additional software? are there really only two contol panes for the rendering dialog? The basic, and advanced? Have I missed something?

Thanks, Im using 2010.

I just could not get the lighting to where I wanted it. I played with the light color (within the lamp families themselves), daylight portals, ies files... I even added more lighting to the room in hopes of getting more ilumination. The end manipulation (adjust exposure) just made things worse. 

Being MEP I was only interested in a mech room, which contains no daylight portals, possibly being part of the problem. Things just looked blah when I was done. The point of rendering is the oooh and ahhh factor right?