Poser does not handle shadows well. Most of the time it's best to turn 'Casts Shadows' off for things that only need to receve shadows and don't actually need to cast them, like walls and floors, but sometimes the oposite is true and it helps to turn on 'Casts Shadows' for something that needs to receve shadows (I have no idea why). Sometimes placing a square prop close underneth/behing the object that needs to receve the shadows will help.

Raising the light a bit and having it pointing more downwards will usually help. The shadow cams are a big factor of course, try scaling the shadow cam for the light down a bit, or raising it up a bit, or both (unfortunatly this will change the perspective of the shadows). The main thing is to keep everything that needs to cast a shadow within the view of the shadow cam.

This problem you are having seems to happen mostly with objects that have no, or very little thickness.

You may like to look at the thread below, it deals with a slightly diffrent aspect of the problem.

http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1059682

Message edited on: 07/21/2005 20:49