im using automatic texture coordinate generation to achieve the look of reflections on a polygon via:

[sourcecode]
-(void)initGL
{
glTexGeni(GL_T, GL_TEXTURE_GEN_MODE, GL_SPHERE_MAP);
glTexGeni(GL_S, GL_TEXTURE_GEN_MODE, GL_SPHERE_MAP);
}

-(void)drawPolygon
{
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_GEN_T);
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_GEN_S);
glCallList(polygons);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_GEN_T);
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_GEN_S);
}
[/sourcecode]

im using a texture that contains the general look of the environment the polygons are in. everything looks fine, the reflection almost looks real if i make the object spin, or if i make the camera rotate around the object; however, if i make the camera follow the object, and make the object move around the environment, the reflection looks phony because it doesn't look as if the reflection on the polygons moves in relation to the environment. it looks as if the object were just sitting still; that is, if there wasnt anything else around the object. i was wondering if there was a way to somehow pass an offset to opengl and the automatic texture generation to reposition the texture or something. thanks.

If you want to do more realistic reflections than you can do with a sphere map, you might like to look into doing a dynamic cube-map.

Basically, you render a low-res version of your scene (from the appropriate viewpoints) into each of the six faces of a cube map each frame, then use the cube map (with the appropriate texture coordinate generation) for the reflection.

I don't think you'll be able to do what you want with sphere-mapping.

i figured it out. all i had to do was translate the texture matrix based on the objects position. it looks perfect now.

OSC if you're rendering to texture each frame it might be faster and easier to use sphere maps instead of cube maps though. Maybe not. I wish OS 9 supported cube maps.

You need a nonlinear projection to render to a sphere map, so I didn't think it was possible... I'd be delighted to be wrong, though

As for OS 9 -- just forget about it. It's dead (and pretty much useless) as far as OpenGL is concerned. There's a reason so many new games don't run on 9.