Modo>environment material doesnt produce specularity/highlights

[syntaxed2]

Not sure if this is a bug, but I cant get the environment material to produce highlight/specularity effect.
I have to add lights in order to produce this effect.

[vladimir.nedev]

For the environment to produce highlights, you need to have glossy reflections enabled in the material.
Highlights are produced only from lights (that's the definition - direct reflections from a light).

It is a side effect, but if you enable "environment importance sampling" from the V-Ray GI tab, this will
turn the environment into a Dome light, and there will be highlights on materials with no reflections enabled.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[syntaxed2]

Thank you for the clarification.