mia_material attribute label fix
The maya 8.5 mia_material has attributes for BRDF which is like a built-in facing-ratio type control for the reflectance. It can be confusing for new users to find that the labels called "Refl Facing View" and "Refl Perpendicular to View" are actually the wrong way around. The error can easily be fixed by a simple edit to the AEmia_materialTemplate.mel file
(original version in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya8.5\scripts\AETemplates).
The label names need swapping between lines 274 and 276.
My edited version can be downloaded here. Extract the mel file and put it in your own scripts folder. When you restart maya the BRDF tab in the mia_material will look like this:
