Translucent Shadows with Lumen in 5.1

Hey. I had a project in 5.0 that had translucent shadows. Upgrading to 5.1 to fix a different issue I have lost the shadows.

I created a new project in 5.1, created a material with Blend Mode: Translucent and Lighting Mode: Surface TranslucencyVolume. Then I enabled Lighting > Advanced > Volumetric Translucent Shadows in details on the object. No shadows, even at full opacity. Can someone please help? Am I missing something?

Notice the 5.1 doc for this says Lumen does not support trans shadows:

Astoundingly, I asked an AI bot, and got

It does sound very specific, and different from the docs. I tried it, but it didn’t work, but thought I’d put it here in case I missed something :slight_smile:

Lumen does not support Colored Translucent Shadows, but it definitely supports black translucent shadows, as it worked in 5.0.

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I can’t get that to work either.

You could just have a duplicate mesh with hidden shadow enabled, I guess. For now…

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how??