During the smart lighting passes system and testing the variety texture units I found that baked maps (lightmaps) are very proper for the true static objects (the combination of the light and shadow maps is quite popular at the moment):
Also here you will find one of the post-processing effect called bloom and experimentation’s of gloss mapping (rocks are too much plastic now ).
And how do you bake your lightmaps? In 3dsmax or by hands?