Daylight environment sharp shadows

Newtek Lightwave 3D (exporter developed by holocube, Integrated Plugin developed by juanjgon)

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3Dimensional
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I realized something today that puzzles me about shadows. I have my scene set to daylight environment and direct lighting on Ambient Occlusion. I have an object that is about 100 meters up in the sky, and yet, it's casting a sharp shadow on the ground like it was 1 meter from the ground. This is how the Lightwave native distant light behaves, which I never understood, but I thought that Octane was trying to be as realistic as possible.

Did I miss any setting in the daylight environment or direct lighting nodes? I can't see anything in the manual.
3Dimensional
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:33 pm

Oops! Found it. It was the sun size parameter in the daylight environment.
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