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But your idea of using a rectangle and then perhaps extruding it and rotating it is a worthy one.

That sounds also an interesting 'extrude tool calibration' question in Xara. So setting up the units of measures in meter or cm in Xara, extruding a 22 cm high prism (vase with flower) with having a wall with 40 cm behind like Stygg's composition looks around, then switching on the floor shadow, that would result a 'real' shadow with its distance and shape if some spot lighting comes from that direction as Xara's fix shadow assumes?

Khm once would like to try so again comparing to Blender