How do I make a ****ny gold surface?

I made a vector shape in Adobe Illustrator and I want to fill it with
a ****ny gold surface. I want that to look like just  a featureless,
****ny gold metal surface or to have a satin gold finish. I don't want
a rough texture. I also want the same thing in silver metal. I tried
looking in google images and a few texture collections for such a
tiled texture image of these things but I couldn't find one. The
software I have are 3D Studio Max 9, Adobe Illustrator CS3, and
Photoshop CS3. Can someone give me any info or point me in the right
direction to some resources or info on how to do this? Is there a good
web site, texture graphics collection, book, or something to enable me
to do this? It seems to me I should be able to render a ****ny gold
surface in 3D Studio Max, but I don't know how to do that yet and I
don't know if it has that capability built in or I have to get some
add-on things.