I'm trying to render an animation where only the figure's shadow is seen, not the figure. I would have thought that, going to the (Figure>Body) Properties tab,  unchecking Visible but leaving Visible in Raytracing would do what I want, but it doesn't seem to. My light and render settings are properly set to raytrace shadows, but the figure is not there (as expected) with no shadows (as undesired).

I have a good workaround, but I thought I would get some thoughts here first, thanks.

Oh, and what would be really super is if there is a way to use depth map shadows in the solution, for speed of rendering. Slightly OT, but I'll add that I have a 64 bit quad core with 6 gigs ram, and of  course dear Poser is the only one of my graphics programs that seems virtually unaffected by the computational power...it renders as slow as it did on my old machine.

oh, and BTW #2, I own Glow Worm, a (Daz?) rendering plugin which can render shadow (and many other) passes, but it's super buggy and off the table for consideration, as far as I'm concerned.
thanks
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