Miss Nancy,

Well, thank you and thank you for the information. That is very helpful.

I'm a Painter, Cartographer, and Draftsmen and sometimes make 3D widgets. I don't really know Poser that well, except it has been a pain to use for me since version 1. I did not know that about the shadow settings and somehow always assumed it was the intensity of the shadow cast that the dial controlled, not its X-ray powers. Silly me! I always thought transparency of an object controlled its density or opaqueness.

Normally, I would just export the scene to a renderer and figure the lighting out in there just to avoid the frustration, but doing a complete scene in poser is the objective.