Hey BagginsBill,

First, I just want to thank you enthusiastically once more for everything that you do. All of your technical discussions that go way over my head, but are still really interesting to read. Your generosity with many of the shaders, tips, and tricks you've given us over the years. And just generally for being you! :D

You're right, I should have read through the instructions in detail once more. I read them a long time ago when I originally downloaded your sphere, and then went looking for the "lightless" thread last week when I was thinking about trying this. Re-reading that thread (thank you again for helping me track it down), and reading a bunch of your other posts over the last week was very educational.

However, as you yourself have pointed out, some of your older posts were made before your latest discoveries. If you read a whole bunch of stuff from you, all from different time periods, in a short pan of time, then it can get confusing to an amateur like me as it appears that you are contradicting yourself on occasion. That is not a criticism in any way directed at you, just an observation and advice for any one that does what I did - if you choose to go read a bunch of stuff from BB, then pay attention to the dates and times so that you have an understanding of how his techniques have evolved and the correct way to implement them in a modern Poser environment.

I failed to do that. Sorry! And thank you for pointing it out. :)

Son of a... I didn't even SEE that link at the bottom of the EnvSphere page with step-by-step instructions.

I understand what you are saying about GC though, and I do turn on GC in my render settings. So I need to adjust that Gamma In setting from 2.2 to 1.0. Thank you for pointing that out. I am not sure I understand what you are saying about the HSV node, but let's leave that for now - I'm at work so I can't play with it at the moment. I'll re-read this later on, along with the instructions on your page, and do some more experiments this evening. :)