No shadows on floor

Way back when, I found out how to do surfaces so that I would get a shadow, from the character, on the floor Now I can't seem to remember how to do it. I create a primitive for the floor, have the surface tabs selected, choose a shader, and nothing happens. On the old forum there was a topic that covered this, but now I can't find it. I hope someone can help me as this is so frustrating. All my characters appear to be floating '-)
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Shadows are associated with the lights in DS, I assume that is what you are using?
Slect a light in the Scene tab, go to the Parameters tab, and set the Shadow Type to Deep Shadow Map.
Thanks very much. That was the problem :-)