Use Lighting > Shadows to see hardware shadow maps in the Scene View.
Hardware shadow maps from directional or spot lights for geometry (NURBS, polygons, subdivision surfaces) and particles (points, multipoints, and spheres only) can be calculated and displayed on graphics cards with drivers that support the ARB_multitexture and EXT_texture_env_combine OpenGL extensions.
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