I've had a few nice comments so far about my latest render in [ my Gallery](http://www.renderosity.com/gallery.ez?ByArtist=Yes&Artist=SpottedKitty), but this isn't *quite* how I originally planned the pic.

My first idea -- which I still think works better -- was for a higher POV looking slightly down on the scene. The attached pic is reduced and lightened (so you can see what's wrong) from an earlier version with this POV, but while the shadows on the wall, the fish, and the girl all look good, there are no shadows (not even of the pillars) along the floor.

All lighting in the scene is from a group of spots in the middle of the well (I think you can just about see the light cones) parented to the glow prop, and pointing out in all directions, with another wide-angle spot pointing down from the ceiling and just bright enough to illuminate the floor. This last spot had "cast shadows" turned off, all others had shadows on.

Can anyone help me figure out what's happened? In hindsight, a couple of my other renders also seem to have these disappearing shadows, but I thought at the time it was because I didn't really understand Poser lighting. Now, I think it's because I don't quite understand Poser lighting...

I'm using Poser 4.0.3, running on Win98, with 512MB of RAM, if that's any help. The room prop is, of course, Awful Soul's excellent Well Room.