I just noticed that proxies do not work with ShadowMaps, I don’t use them all the time but when there is a lot of lights it works well to fake area shadows in a faster render time. Any chance of getting them to work together?
Ah rtfm… 
Shadow maps will not include information about the proxy objects. If you want the proxy objects to cast shadows, you should use V-Ray shadows.
I think it’s because to calc a shadowmap, you have to load the object before the render starts, defeating a bit the purpose of a proxy, loaded only at the time the bucket needs it (more or less :lol:).
The only way those could go together is if there was a vray shadow map that would get calculated on request, at the moment a bucket than needs it fires up, rather than before the start of the rendering.
Lele