Acadia - Oh, very nice!

jjroland - Notice the Red and Green walls in pjz's image? That is what acadia and I are getting at with a Sky Dome. Without objects, the Poser scene space is void, so there is nothing for a reflective material to react with/show(The Background Color or Image do'nt count.)

A Sky Dome is the easiest, and ideal way to circumvent not having anytng to reflect, at any angle. Sky Domes are what make skies, and reflections so easy in Vue, and Bryce, because these programs have Sky Domes built in as critical parts of the scene structure. This is possible in Poser, but you need to add this yourself.

Ajax's is the best I know, Just load this Figure into a scene, it's huge, but it's Ground Plane will position itself perfect. By default it's Water plane renders a little slow though, so just unckeck Dissplacement, from your renders settings, and/or e-mail me for my Double Sky material/texture. Then apply Reflective material to the ground. If you look around the web for 360 degree panormaic Photographs, you'll find images to texture the Sky Material Zone with; or if you have Vue or Bryce, they can export a Sky or 360 Panoramic texture. Then set the Preview to the Sky material, and make each other Material Zone Transparent.

I, personally, do'nt ever see myself using a Reflection Map. When I have a reflective material in my scene I want evertything in my scene reflecting off of that. If I were to use a Reflection Map, that Map would need to be updated, each time something in the scene was moved, or added!

FYI - THe Poser Manual recommends using 3 bounces, for Raytracing.