Quote - Trying a quick test render with it, I eliminated the lights it loaded and added a couple of Reality mesh lights.  The figure I lit is rendering fine, and the nearby ground, but the background fades quickly to black.  How can I get the beautiful mountains and skies lit that the set is supposed to provide?

You can turn the material for the Skydome into a light. Right click on it and select the option "Convert to a light". If the the surface normals of the skydome point to the outside then the light will be emitted away from the camera and not toward the camera. This can be easily fixed by enabling the "Invert direction" checkbox in the Light editor.

Hope this helps.

Paolo

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