FishNose,

I thought nostril glow was because people use 256 pixels shadow maps and don't bother adjusting the shadow min bias to be smaller than the size of a human nostril diameter. (It defaults to 1 inch). And they don't know anything about managing shadow cameras.

But you say here that Depth Mapped simply can't do it. Hmmm. It must be true, then.
 
But I was sure I wrote a thread 3 years ago showing everybody how to get sharp small-scale shadows from DM shadows with a couple simple adjustments to their technique.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2577132

I guess the instructions there don't work since, as you say, Depth Mapped simply can't do it.

Also I heard that the internal scale of Poser was modified since Poser 7, that when Poser sends the data to Firefly everything is scaled up. And that the reason for doing so had nothing to do with depth-mapped shadows. It was because of ray-tracing, numerical problems. But I could be misinformed on that issue as well.

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