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Chris: If there are ANY keys for ANYTHING other than the camera (as far as I can tell), then you'll have re-calc'ed shadows. I have, for instance, a project where I hide (with hide-keys) a couple non-shadow-casting objects 'cause the camera would pass too close to them (I hide and unhide them as the camera approaches/departs them). This seems to cause shadow re-calcs. Now, as I type this, I'm thinking, "hey, I don't have shadow-bias-absolute set on, so hiding these things changes the scene size, so that _should_ cause a re-calc." Gary or Jonas? Can you answer this: Do keys for non-shadow-casting objects cause shadow-map recalculations for each frame if shadow-bias-absolute is ON? (If so, I "WISH" they wouldn't.) Also, I assume that keys for a dummy to which the camera/target is linked DON'T cause recalc's if there are no other object keys, right? Dave