Smoke wont cast shadows

[etown]

I'm using a standard max spotlight with vray shadows on and volume light added in atmospheres and effects, but it doesn't seem to be casting shadows correctly based on the wheel's shadow. Is there something I should be checking in order to cast shadows correctly?



Thanks

[LarsSonparsson]

A: Why are you using volume light?

B: You should turn "atmospheric shadows" on from Max standard lights.

[Ivaylo Katev]

as lasse already said, by default the max lights have atmosphere shadows turned off, just turn it on and remove the volume light effect. btw, do not use two atmospheres simultaneously, without special plugin for blending.
is this a particle based simulation? looks good, but there are small green dots at the floor, perhaps frozen particles?