I think lmckenzie was just doing some light-hearted joking around. He and I have a similar sense of humor, I think.

One of the things I often talk about is that in order to be funny, you have to take risks. Sometimes the joke isn't funny at all or offends some people. I do that all the time, both in this forum and in real life. I'm reminded of the time I said something like "All you Mac f***ers are lucky to have a Poser at all" back when I was struggling to make P8 drag and drop work on the Mac. That pissed some people off really bad, although I thought it was a hilarious overreaction on my part that would be understood to be humor. It wasn't.

In fact, that very thing is busted again and I'm currently trying to fix it for SM, so this is a good time to say "All you Mac friends are lucky to have a Poser at all." SM is very committed to supporting the Mac, much to my chagrin. (I get paid a fixed amount to make it work, regardless of how many days it takes me. Grrr.)

Meanwhile, sorry about the shadow assumption. I glanced quickly at your one-and-only gallery image and saw the ear that is facing the ground is lit and assumed there were no shadows. Looking at it again, I see some shadows under the figure, but strangely not correct ones. Maybe your shadow min bias was set too high and the shadow got skipped in some places. Particularly troubling is under his waist, where clearly some of his body is throwing a shadow, but not all of it. Weird.

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