I made a mountain background in Terragen, imported it Poser, put the figure on and it looks like it was just pasted on, no shadows. How is that done? Got frustrated and just imported the mountain geometries just so my Dork would have something to stand on! How are shadows made on a background?-Thanks you all P.S.-anyone know of a file format converter that will change POV or RIB to and OBJ or DXF? the frrebee version of 3D Canvas only exports to those 2 unusable for me formats. Crossroads or 3dwin won't.

Is it a prop or a picture? if a pic, instead of using it as a background picture, use it as a texture on the one-sided square prop. Shadows should appear on that.

Are you certain that Dork is actually close enough to the mountain prop that he can cast a shadow onto it? Poser figures can appear to be touching or very close to things, but if I check a side camera, I sometimes find that they're floating above it or are quite a distance away from where they appear to be. It helps to move them slightly into the prop, to the point that they're intersecting it, then slowly back them out in tiny increments. Don't know if this is your problem, but you only need to check the gallery to see how common it is :)

O.K. I think I know now what to do.--It is a background pic not a prop. I have to put the BMP on a square then put Dork and the other props. As to what Patricia said, the mountain is not a prop just a picture I made in the 3d program Terragen that I saved as a BMP, therefore it is not a 3d object. I whish I could export it as a 3d ojbect, but it can only export as a 2d BMP picture. I see gallerys with background pics and there are shadows from the object on backgrounds. So it's actually a BMP on a square. I'll try that. please answer this question if you can----P.S.-anyone know of a file format converter that will change POV or RIB to and OBJ or DXF? the freebee version of 3D Canvas only exports to those 2 unusable for me formats. Crossroads or 3dwin won't.