Hi Jcl!

For your information I used only 256x256x24 mip or 1024x1024x24 mip TGA texture formats.

The new options in MED-EDIT seems to have cleared up the situation.
The shadow in gone.
I did :
FILE ...open... and checked the engine preview ....the shadow was there.
went to EDIT...used "Delete second skin set"...saved and checked E.P. ...shadow was gone

I did this with 2 models and it removed the shadow in every one of them.

Your option :"Delete the second skin set" removed the shadow (my problem )and it
did not remove the second skin in the Manage skin setting menu.
(This is ok. I wanted to keep that second skin and all 28 other skins.)

When I returned to EDIT the following options were not available
Swop skin sets
Delete second skin set

So I decided to check all my models to see if the new options where available or not.

Models saved with ver 7.07 did not have swop and delete lines activated

The models that I built in ordre to find the solution to my problem have
all the new options (activate...swop...delete) available even if the shadow was
not there or not seen.

Thanks for the help and the solution

Michel