Quote - "Now it seems we are back to poor Poser depth-mapped shadows again. (Figures that appear to be floating above the ground, anyone?)"

There are always the options of decreasing shadow bias, increasing shadow map sizes, reducing the shadow blur radius  and tweaking the shadow cams.

 

Yep. At one time or another (especially in my P4 days) I have played with all of that. But its always been an albatross for me. An extra couple of minutes tweaking and fiddling with something that should really work on its own. Like having to spend ten minutes tweaking the engine of your car before you can drive. Sure it can be done..... but....... (bleah) :-)

I was hoping that was all pretty much a dead issue with poser 6.

Oh well: I will cross my fingers and hope for a fix. Otherwise, I will be looking at P7 with an EXTREMELY wary eye.

I mean, really. Between P5 and P6 I have now spent a couple of hundred dollars on programs that seem unable to handle something even the absolutely free Daz studio seems to handle easily...

Not the end of the world. It's after all just a hobby, but I AM disappointed.