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Mustang
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Stencils are volumes, not meshes really in a sense. And they are sharp, so no soft shadows.

Hardest part is calc'ing the shadow volume and casters silhouettes... pretty good explanation here:

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1873.asp