If anyone needs a preview of their picture using shadows and so on then render a small 320x320 version of your picture but don`t use antialiasing. You will get a slightly rougher and smaller version of your finished render with the shadows in it. As I said before, in another thread, poser was originally made to be a tool to make poseable people for OTHER 3d programs like lightwave, cinema 4d etc that is why up to poser 4 the renderer was pretty basic. It was actually supposed to be just a preview till you put your figures into another 3d program. That is something curious labs could have done more of, importers for poser for other programs, they did lightwave and 3dsmax but they could have made others too.