Lucifer- I think this would work ok in Bryce if the inner sphere has cast, self and receive shadows off in its material. In cinema you could have the dome's lights set to not cast shadows but this could lead to errors as Rochr has noted so it has to be used carefully. A compositing tag appled to the sphere to turn off the cast/receive shadows as with my suggestion above would probably be a better solution though.

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