Hi Guys! The problem I have is that I was using a directional light for the planets to begin with but now that the planets are orbiting the sun the lighting no longer works and looks terrible, I have also tried to fake the lighting using Dot Product in the materials but I can’t seem to update it on…

Logically it really seems like a point like is what you want since the star is your source of light and should radiate in all directions, not a single direction like a directional light. I don’t understand why the scale of the system should make any difference in your use of a point light.

Solar system lighting?

Development Rendering

anonymous_user_835301aa (anonymous_user_835301aa) December 12, 2016, 5:17pm 5

You should be able to have shadows render at large distances without issue. Check out This thread.