Yup. The second sphere to make the shadow was smaller, but it still created
the artifact on the main one. I even gave it a bland rgb 0 texture with no
normal or finish... nothing really helped.

Josh

Chris Huff wrote:

> In article <39F86351.C143C1C2@spiritone.com>, Josh English
> <eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote:
>
> > It's nice that it works, unfortunatly the shadows are also important.
> > What I tried to do was place an identical sphere bounded by the light
> > source to get my shadow back, and it creates the shadowline artifact
> > again... grrr.
>
> Did you make sure the "shadow sphere" was slightly smaller in radius
> than the "real" sphere? If they have the same size and position,
> coincident surfaces can cause a problem.
>
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