Well, I took everyone's advise and... 1) Reset the camera position to default and the sun is now round. I had done some tutorials I D/Led from this great site, and somehow someone recommended setting the camera to '0,0,0'. I still don't know why. I'll have to Email them. 2) The dark line at the base of the pyramid IS part of the .MAT file and not a relection of colors from the sky. (I removed all color and it it was still there.) 3) I resized the pyramid with contrained proportions. (Thanks theFOG!) I also added another little goodie since this whole practice piece was somehat overdone anyway. :-) Thanks all... I'LL BE BACK! Vince