Thank you, Os. Lack of anti-aliasing will be a pain, I agree. How much control have we over the camera? Can it be programmatically controlled? If so, we might run two identical passes with and w/o shadows and multiply the result in AfterEffects or Premiere. That would give some control over gamma, too. I have to see if I can find any of Dr. Fluxus' scripts - most were left in prims laying about my lost land.
 

I hear the next point release RC will have shadows AND antialiasing, but dunno when that'll be nor if the lighting will remain the same. AA + shadows is a whopping fps hit. Even shadows + filming would send most computers into a stutter. If you look at the machinima "Losin' It" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUkg49R2q8s I filmed that with the shadow client in HD resolution (you've the choice of HD in yootoob). I use a Space Navigator but my experience with shadows is it's best not to move around too terribly much. I don't have the option atm to send the picture to a capture device.
 

Of course it's always possible to be very careful with the lights and forgo shadows entirely.
 

I think the latter is the safest, we can burn shadows into the textures. But it may have to wait until I return from China, after all. Work is piling up quickly, and I have a lot to prepare.
 

Oh, of course! I never considered trying to rush, but would like to have bags of time to get things right.