3ds max shiny material

Once again, i'm new to 3ds max. Could someone help tell how to make the material really shiny and reflective like we've all seen a million times. I can't seem to figure it out. Thanx for any help.

This is for metallic text, but the effect should help:

http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/tutorials/max/metallic/metallic.asp

This one is making a spoon, but it is reflective:

http://www.hallofheads.com/tutorials/tut7.htm

You might also look through some other tutorials at www.3dcafe.com.

hey thnx, seems like using the raytrace map for the reflection is the way to do it, I'll try that out.

When you get into the materials window...Click on Raytracing......Set the Reflectivity to White..(which is 100 percent reflective)...I find setting the diffuse to black also helps..You should definetely have a cool reflection map as well...Under the raytracing rollout there is a tab for Environment.(Not the "rendering" environment). Put a cool sky .bmp in there and the object you apply the material to will reflect it...Lighting is very important to make things really shine too.... I try to put three differently angle SPOT lights onto the object with shadows "ON". It's alot of trial and error....
good luck,

Jim

hey, thnx for the tips xr650lvr, i'm gonna try that :D

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