give it a render and see what i have got

go to render globals and tick refractions then render to see what a have

the render, clearly the sky is giving some nice refractions to the ground plane, but this is where this wIP begins. I will be painting on specular colour next, but that will have to wait for a little while as I have to go out and do some stuff like pay bills ect.
we will seee how the results of that are later.

maybe the shadows could be a little more darker blue??

I bring up paint 3D attributes and change the settings from paint 'colour' to paint 'specular.'

then i assign the 'assign texture', i used 512 for this.

I chose black to flood the ground plane and then I...

flooded it and choose white to paint the specular colour on with..

I adjusted the brush to suit with middle mouse button and 'b' keyboard and started to paint on the paint on the specular colour

giving it a sort of river shape or something like that, if anyone can improve on any of this that is why it is here, it is not a lesson as such...

I rendered it to see what I got, refractions are on in globals

turned off default lights in globalsto see if any differance

and rendered again

no differance I can see there much but it helps in the view port to turn off default lights when using any lights. when I assigned a texture to make the ground plane paintable maya saved the image as an 'iff' file so I can take it in to photoshop, it would be good if it was a complicated model, and do what I need to there for it, heres the input, output connectons in the hypershade.

Looking pretty good Mirek.

thanks, any suggesions?

did you get the laptop?? or go for the PC?

PC I hope.., believe me, laptop, unless you got ALOT of RAM is VERY slow with maya