Thank you guys.

I spent allot of time on that lighting. I think there were (at last guess now without the file anymore) about 30 pin lights, ambient light, the effects lights and like a dozen spots. The room was 90 feet long. And I didn't know about the sun function (missed that in class) so I had created a star with a pinlight in center and a directional for the radiation casting off the gas giant outside.

I also didn't know about composting, lol. I built a scale planet and all that outside to get the shot. My instructor was like, "dude, no wonder you're always getting fatal errors and crashing". Great learning experience though.

It (lighting) was surprisingly the thing I most enjoyed when I started Maya even over the modeling. So those comments from experienced artists like yourselves mean a great deal.

Thanks again.

Travis