**Is there more than one place to set soft shadows?

**-Yup. In the IBL section of the Sky Lab, there is the "Quality" slider right underneath the HDRI preview window, take it off the default of 256 and down to 16.

The old "Soft Shadows" button has to do with just the suns shadows, and when you use HDRI, the sun is by default turned off, so that will have no effect. (unless you were to turn it back on (the sun)), and then still that would only affect the shadows made by the sun.

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