Alon and Flyby and Phoib. any progress on ra2 normals?

Alon and Flyby, since you two have access to 3d studio i was wondering if you were familiar with the fresnel effect. i was just reading a little about it. the fresnel effect is where reflective surfaces become more reflective the more of a glancing ange they are looked at. are there options you can play with in 3d studio to do a fresnel effect?

does anyone know if gmax will have all material effects such as bump maps etc or will it only allow one texture for use as a diffuse color map which is all that games use nowadays?