Yup, you got it drac. There's so many various ways of doing stuff like this. *When needed, I will; render my scene without any shadows. render the scene again, but with the objects and ground all covered with a white mat, and non-soft shadows turned on for one light. *This gives me a "shadow map" render, (or whatever it might be called). With some tweaking I can blur it (making soft shadows), and re-apply it over my main render in a 2D editor. That's oversimplification, but you get the idea (hopefully) There's lots of varients to this "technique", and I learned about it by reading high-end tutorials, they use cheats like this ALL the time. AgentSmith

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