chrome letters
Rock, the best way to get chome letters is to put an auto-reflect (cubic)
material on the letters (with a little bit of blur). Then, make an object
for the letters to reflect that's texture-mapped with the bitmap you want
to use for the reflection map. This "reflection object" can even be in
front of the camera, since the surface normals ought to be pointing away
from the camera (and towards the reflecting object). And note that you
should ALWAYS use a 24-bit reflection map for best results.
– G