"its still not like the "gel" light I made. Am I doing something wrong still?"

Probably. You're not telling me what you're doing. I can only guess.

You forgot to enable the shadows. (need them enabled)

You're using depth-mapped shadows. (they cannot do the detail you want in a large outdoor scene - use raytraced)

You forgot to enable raytracing.

The "Shadow" setting on your light is 0 - should be 1.

I'm pretty sure it's something like that because you haven't got any shadows at all, anywhere.

You'd notice if you'd just do some simple white-object tests instead of dealing with a thousand complexities.

I also can't see where you've placed your square so I can't tell if it even is in the right location.

Look at my picture - reproduce this - it took me 1 minute to assemble. From start to finish. How long are you rendering? (Answer: too long to learn what is going on)

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