Hi hborre, thanks for jumping in here. You remember that what we're basically trying to do by using IBL with a common image is have my poser scene lighting match exactly to my friend's lighting in Truespace program.  He's got the room modeled and textured, and he's dropping in my Ben figure rendered from PoserPro2010. He needs Ben's floor shadow on a separate PSD layer for compositing. That's the basics of it, but being fairly green at this lighting stuff, some of it is traveling over my head. I don't know if my friend Breech Block will post here or not, he is very busy at the moment.

That said, I will try out what you suggested and what everyone else has suggested. I remember you posting a sample IBL scene, and you had one infinite light in addition to the IBL. I have eliminated the infinite light from my setup, but from what everyone is saying, to my understanding, if I want to get shadows I will need to add the infinite light back into the setup. I'll post my render and lighting setting screengrabs, maybe that will help. I don't want to waste everyone's time if I'm not experienced enough to understand the technical aspect.  Thanks again.

 

MM