Max-like glossiness?

[marvin2k1]

in 3d max tutorial, dealing with a wood table top, you drop some kind of map in some reflection slot and voila, you have a nice glossy reflective table top...same thing for objects like knife blades, and the like. NOW...in xsi, I'd be interested what kind of monkeying around i'd have to do with the render tree to accomplish this. I KNOW ed harriss would know this...come on ed, can ya spare some change for an old altar boy?

[nouvelleorleans]

if you set the reflection, there is slider named "gloss" and you'll get what u need, and slider "samples" to set the smoothness,,,

hope this helps

[richard-sher]

If what you are looking for is a reflection map, then try this out:

In the render tree: Nodes>Environment>Spherical Mapping. Plug this node into your Materials environment slot. Make sure that your material type is reflective.
Render.
Your object will now reflect the NoIcon pic. (Just like in max.)

To make it render faster, change the reflection mode of your material type from "Raytracing Enable" to "Environment Only"

To change the reflecting image, just double click the NoIcon attached to the Spherical Mapping shader and chose a different image.