black shiny and chrome surfaces - how to?

[Achim]

Hello,
I am trying to get curved surfaces appear reflective (as far as it's possible in jPCT, anyway).
For a essentially black texture I was not able to achieve any highlights from point a light source, and also could not get a chrome effect.
I tried specular reflections and environment mapping, but could not see any differences when switching these settings on or off 
Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
Achim

[EgonOlsen]

Specular is questionable...it may work fine, but most of the time, it isn't worth it. Environment mapping is the way to go for chrome or faked phong shading effects. I don't know why it didn't work out for you, but the fps example is using it for the weapon for example. Maybe that helps...

[Achim]

thanks for the pointer to your code, that helped (I forgot to load a proper texture)

[EgonOlsen]

For faked shinyness, something like this works best:

For chrome like effects, the texture used in the fps-example is nice.