p.s. Cargile
yes... I like my shots and meshes in them to be half lightghted with Main light and the rest of it with ambient lighting...

to rephrase myself, it's better when you post a render of a mesh lighted in that fashion as it looks a bit better than on showing the fully bright side of the mesh...
Red_ufo
you mean the atmosphere ?
ah... Can't go into details as I don't remember all of the setings from memory...
But... I did wrote a tutorial on how I did this Earth...
