Hi everyone,
Does anyone know of a way to make an object reflect other objects around it? For example, if you look at my latest gallery upload at

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1635805

I like the way it turned out, but the effect I was aiming for was making it look like the spaceship was smooth, shiny metal, and I was hoping that it would have a reflection of the astronaut and the alien. I've recently begun experimenting with different ways of rendering, using the Firefly render engine's settings. I don't really understand the whole concept of ray-tracing - I've read about it here and there in the forums, and I was under the impression that ray-tracing would render reflections -obviously I was way off. I'm hoping someone can explain ray-tracing to me and also let me know if there's a way to render reflections. Thanks everyone -

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