nukeboy, OK I stil think you can do it by turning off light sensitivity, which BTW I think answered your original question, but you'll need to turn off the sun too, and play around with base density to acomplish the effect you're looking for & darken your shadows and cloud colors and perhaps live without fog and haze. Also the radial light's range if too large will ruin any edge sofness of the spotlight, but I think you could do it with enough playing around with this stuff. If you don't want to turn off the sun, haze, fog etc (which would create other problems in your scene which would have to be corrected for), it looks like you might be stuck with the plop render idea. - TJ