Hi!

I have missed around 6 months from Renderosity and quite lost the track of the things.
I posted this thread in order to ask for help to "recover" myself.
In this time I was absent I lost my settings and test files that I used for renders in a HDD crash (you know, those dreaded Seagate 11 series made in Thailand...) and right now I am pretty well...a newbie yet again.
My question is : where can I find tutorials that describe the render settings of Poser 7, comparations between the rendering using the two main types of shadows and lights, and especially about the lights that use mapped shadows (I guess this was the name...right?), I also need to realearn what shadow only and smooth polygons do (I remember they also had some drawbacks), also the drawbacks of using one setting over another and something about the various types of light (I remember there were two? omni and infinite), IBL and raytracing use.It seems that I canot track them again in the forums, as I get too many irrelevant results.I hope you can help me.
Thank you in advance!

Best regards!