> Quote -  BB, have you played any with Carrara?  One of the things I like about Carrara lighting is that the various types of lights can be placed in the scene as objects.  It makes it easier to work with rather than rotating a light around a globe.  That might be a fix for your light position and angular controls.

Ummm...  You do know you can do this in Poser, too, right?  Infinite lights are different in that they aren't really located anywhere but represent a direction.  If you switch to the local lights, you will find that they can be rotated and moved via the parameter dials and I think even parented to other objects.  I use the front and side views to place them within the objects I want to emit light (and usually have to turn the shadows off for these objects also).

In this pic I have four spotlights hidden in the lighting fixtures.  The lighting material (not the actual light, the apparent light) is just white in the diffuse and ambient channels.  The light cones are trans maps.

There is a glitch in the lights' falloff, unfortunately.  The area of light doesn't correspond to the area of shadow (you may be able to see it on the deck chairs' shadows).  I couldn't manage to fix it and eventually lost interest in the whole project.