Actually rotated it 90 degrees on the X axis, went with the top view to take the half-moon appearing structure, placed it so that it covered the active camera, the hemisphere, almost touching the back of the camera.....making sure that the size of the sphere covered the viewing angles. It seemed to do the job. I am experimenting now with a model of the Enterprise-D (Star Trek TNG) in space..... and guess what, no big difference there for the Standard and RT render for shadows...... and guess GI does not apply much in space ! The shadows were very dark on both renders......and it probably is like that in space. Nevertheless, I surrounded the ship with a luminous sphere with faint luminosity and got pretty nice results and shadows that still permitted to see a bit of the textures as I wanted ! Thanks again for all the feedback ! Paul
