RedPhantom posted at 8:22 AM Thu, 2 June 2022 - #4439479

okay, I did manage to do it. Having the light well in front of the fly and pointing almost directly down did it. Try changing the location or angle of the light

It's not just  this file, or this lighting angle.  Shadows have disappeared from  the preview render across the board(every file,  every  model,  every ground type,  every  light type,  every  setting on those lights, every time),  and it happened when I upgraded from  Poser 10 to Poser 11,  this was about two years ago  now. 

I assure you lighting angle has nothing to  do with it.  I have files from  years ago that have shadows in the renders(I have the renders--they have shadows),  I can open the files up,  not change a single setting,  but they no longer have shadows, not in  preview,  not in the preview render.  They  simply stopped working in preview when I upgraded to Poser 11.  I am  seriously thinking it's a hardware issue,  as none of the settings I have tried have produced shadows. 

I appreciate you trouble shooting this,  but I'm really-really leaning towards the fact that  something in Poser 11's preview  is not playing well  with the graphics card on this older PC.