thanks for help...but I am just stupid, I used an ambient light, not a point light...now it looks fine

see image

top: no light
bottom: with light

thats about what I did, and as I wrote in the hypershade preview the material has the highlight (changing when I change the parameters).

When rendered changing the settings has no effect at all....

Hello, I am pretty new to Maya. I am trying to do some simple smiley balls.

I created a material, for the color I loaded a simple smiley face texture. When rendering the scene without a light I...