I am sure this is something quite simple I am missing but for the life of me, I cannot get it to work!

I have a scene in WED and I have lights placed. It looks nice when I compile as all the light maps work fine. The problem I am having is when I 'Load Entity...' and pick an MDL file. The mesh loads in fine, but it does not receive any lighting, nor does it cast any shadows.

How do I do that?

I tried 'Shadow' and 'Cast' attributes for the MDLs properties. To no avail.

have you made sure you did tick the shadow flag?

Yes with both shadow AND cast ticked, and then just shadow ticked. The shadows are still not there.

I also switched my lighting to "high rez' and 'dynamic' thinking that would help.

it didn't

I have exactly the same problem.
My models remain exactly the same no matter how much light in the environment.

Why is that? I have no script yet shader!

sorry for the bad english ...^^

I really do not know. If I find a solution, I definitely will post the answer so that other newbies can learn from my issue.

Have you tried adding a template script, to see if that solves it?

no but I just tried it and chose a few of the templates. They all gave me errors with defines. Like below.

If you are wondering, I am a teacher at Greater Southern Tier Boces. I am using a seat of their registered team edition, but it shows all of that in the image. I am legit!

It may still help but these defines stop it. Is a define declared with '#DEFINE' or just 'define' I thought they had to be capitalized behind the '#' but it is not here.

If these are template scripts, then they should not produce errors.
Have you changed them?

Models don´t have shadows depending on static lights, just stencil shadows created by the sun or any other dynamic light if you explicitly set it to do so. The "dynamic" flag in WED does not work.
You will have to import the model as geometry into MED if you want the map compiler to create shadows for it.

I looked but did not see the option in MED to import as geometry but in WED, I used the File>Import>Import from MDL and every item you import this way is calculated into the lighting. Great for my project of a museum-type house. The only problem I have with this method id that it does not import animation. I am not sure if you can still animate these things in code or not. But as for environmental stuff, this gives you lights and shadows. Thank you Slin, do you think animated objects created with ent_create in code may use the dynamic lights to create shadows?