I'm having an issue with getting shadows to show up during rendering. I did a search and found a few things on it, but nothing concrete. Am I not doing something that I need to be doing in order to get a shadow to show up? It's visible in the pre-render stages, but once I render I get nothing. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm using p5 if it matters. pb

The "shadow" you see in a pre-render is not a shadow, its more like a placement guide. First of all, check that your characters and stuff in the scene is actually set to cast shadow, and also in the render settings, the Cast shadows must be ticked. Are you using raytraced or mapped shadows? Mapped shadows can sometimes dissapear if you have a large object in the scene (you can overcome this by choosing a larger shadowmap)

Also, if your shadows are being cast on a ground plane or other prop used as a "ground", ensure that shadows are turned OFF for this object. At least, that's on a P4/PP render. It doesn't really affect Firefly as far as I can tell.

ensure shadows are turned off for which object? the "ground" itself?

Yep, the ground.

okay... maybe i should try to make this a bit more clear. i'm trying to cast the shadow onto the ground. and nothing is working.

it is. i dont know why it doesnt work. but thanks for all the help anyway guys!