:=) I hope you realize that this is all in FUN, and not too serious a matter, but my image is 100% poser ;0 and I don't need no stinkin generators to make wood, rocks, and sky. I can use REAL world textures in Poser if I want to. And the secret to shadows is in setting your lights with larger shadow maps and to limit the number of shadow-casting lights to your Key lights. As you can see in my image, the lighting simulates strong sunlight from a low angle as in a mid-morning sun. As for your shadows in the example above, I don't see the "bug" - help me out here - what do you expect from plastic hair without any transparancy? In my picture above, you can see a nice shadow from his hair on his forehead. But what has all of this to do with the Galleries on RR anyway?