No Reflectivity with Harware Render

[cgblazer82]

I have a problem. im using maya 8 and have an nvidia GeForce 7800 graphics card. i tried render with maya hardware, but when i do the shadow quality drops down significantly and is very pixalated, also, there is no reflectivity on my object that should be reflective. also i have lights with fog enabled and this also doesnt appear with a hardware render. software renders come out extremely nice looking, but i'd like to get that quality with my hardware render. anything i can do? thanks alot.

[sunder]

If you're using the Hardware renderer, you should enable High Quality rendering in the render settings. Also, the hardware renderer cannot do raytracing, so you need to plug a reflection map in the Reflected color to get reflections.