Quote - okay.. i can't for the life of me figure out my lux lighting to make my chrome all nice and shiny chrome.. got the material settins right.. but everything looks either black or green

 

Metals don't have much color of their own, they take on the color of whatever it is they have to reflect. So metals, esepcially shiny ones, need some care taken with their environment to really look good. For example:

HDRI: http://i.imgur.com/Eg4wD.jpg

Plain infinite light: http://i.imgur.com/u9t4p.jpg