okay... i'm a visual artist, not a meteorologist or an astronomer. or a navigator or gunnery sargent. (gaah, i just looked up what an azimuth IS... that did not help!) i like to just click on the sun and drag it around to where i want it! but in vue, the sun light isn't the sun, and to set the sun/moon, you gotta... type in numbers. what do the numbers mean, and what are they in relation to? real azimuths are in relation to the earth's magnetic poles. is the vue azimuth in relation to the camera? the default camera position? 'up'? does it matter which way my computer is facing compared to the earth's magnetic field? :) now in the material mixing azimuth control... i can see that whipping the azimuth slider around makes the second material appear on different sides/angles of the preview sphere. what is THIS azimuth in relation to? the world? the camera? the object? the sun? the sun light?? i mean, if i get the second material in the lower left of the preview sphere... where is it gonna show up on my object? help! :)