The shadow is actually fairly natural, it would make sense if you could see the light probe. I guess just a plain white dome could be used. Right on about the sky color!, I had to make sure I used a white sky setting and turn all the clouds and everything off or to zero and especially make sure the "Background Hue was set to white, instaed of the brilliant blue it seems to default to. Otherwise, you do blue tones and not the color of the light probe. This is a cool technique overall, but I still would use my old technique and not use blurry reflections, only because I myself would want realistic relections. (see link in post #8) But, I think this cool radiosity technique might work great for a layer in a muti-pass technique. AgentSmith

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