Originally posted by GecT I don't really understand what a "directional dome light" is because they are clashing concepts in my mind. And as far as area lights go, the main things I keep in mind are: *Size affects intensity, the bigger the brighter. *Size affects shadow softness, the bigger the softer. Once you've adjusted the postion, color, size, falloff and intensity accordingly, its pretty much all fine tuning the samples to ditch the noise In this case, you could try plopping one down for the sun and another faint light blue one for the starlight for starters. Lol sorry about that--a directional dome light is simple a bunch of directional lights arranged in a dome to provide an ambient illumination to the scene. I like it because you can individually tweak certain lights to brighten one or more sides of the scene. I'll def try using an area light since I'm not getting what i want out of directional lights for the sun.