YR Total Conversion - Dominance

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You could look into Flyby's 3ds max script and get the light coords and angles.
(Is there any mirror for it other than the HDD in my cupboard?)

I can not obtain 3dsmax due to several RL restrictions (and I am not talking about money, I do know the 'alternatives to purchasing'.)

I forgot to upload the file, but I'm sure I will eventually. The blend I will upload has the camera and light coordinates based on that 3DS script BTW.

This truly would be a godsend... I've long since given up on trial-and-error XP

Out of interest, have you turned off all AA in blender or just background AA... I didn't believe it possible to do the latter and had to resort to some compositing jiggery pokery to achieve the same effect as turning off background AA under 3DSMax.

I too, have searched long and hard for a solution for weeks.
At first I found some, but they required an editing per frame, which would take too long for all my animations.

Later, I found the best solution by pure chance: In the Rendering Buttons, choose "Key".
The effect of this is that the background is not considered at all; it is pitch black no matter what you set it to, and yes no AA messing up the model's sides.
Another side effect is that a really bright pixel or two appear by the edge to background, although this can easily be fixed in SHP Builder (for a 40 frame anim, it usually take only ~10 mins of this fixing).