Aye, there's lots of cool techniques to keep the render times down! A couple of things : 1. A light dome is in no way linked to Radiosity, Drac. You know this! What we are talking about is softer shadows. Radiosity effects in Bryce require the True Ambience settings, or you can fake it with Blurry Reflections a bit... 2. I can't remember what the second one was! Nothing really makes up for patience and Bryce's soft shadows setting. I really do think your second example is the best looking, Drac... Oh yeah, the second thing was in regards to Captor's image with the guns. You could eliminate all of those shadow-artifacts by just using Soft Shadows on ONE light. Set that light to Squared fallof, and you're set...