one more question, how can i make the light only affect those 2 faces, but not the whole object? would i have to cut the faces out and paste them separately?

you're brilliant! thank you very much. :)

i knew i had to do that, but i was adding a planet in the back and i didn't want to add another light because it was going to remove that shadow i wanted the planet to have so it would kinda look...

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yes thank you. i used VirtualDub since i couldn't figure out how to do it with composite.

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