Ok... so I know I've done this before, but for some reason I can't figure out how I did it... I want to create a slightly reflective floor for a screen. I want it to look like the models are standing on polished white tile or glass. I'm using a cloth plane and a ray trace reflection node in the materials room. I have the reflections more or less how I want them, but instead of white, the floor is grey. There are also some "waves" on it. Like I said, I've done this before, but I can't find the project, and now I can't remember how I did it. Any help would be great! I'll add some pics to illustrate my question. The first is a render on production setting (ray tracing, cast shadows, smooth polygons).

This is my light setup.

This is my materials setup.

First set diffuse_color and specular_color to pure black. Then set reflection value from 0.1500 to 1.0000. In your render option make sure raytracing is checked and set raytrace bounces to 4. And give the floor something to reflect off of in the background. It is probably grey because your background is grey. Not sure what is causing the waveyness. If you have texture filtering on try turning it off. Also try turning one of the shadows off on your lights, the shadows could be interferring with one another.

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See linked thread for some better settings.

Note once the floor is reflective the colour will be partially determined by the colour of the lights.

Use the single sided square whenever possible. Your reflections will be better for it.

Thanks for all the help! Its working pretty well now!

It is working great now... thanks for all the help!

What's the reason for not simply using Poser's Ground prop? What am I missing here?

There's often distortion around the polygon edges on a multi poly surface.