I'm just wondering if someone can clue me in on the easy way to use texture shadows in OGRE. I assume the best look comes from the using the SHADOWTYPE_TEXTURE_ADDITIVE technique, and then doing some filtering in a shader, and for big areas using PSSM or CSMs. Before I add the fancy stuff, I'd just like to see some decent shadows. I've got the world's simplest scene, one directional light, and I'm seeing blocky texture shadows for a 512x512 texture on a 800x600 window. I know I'm doing something wrong.

What I really want to know is, do I really need the scene designer to specify every single property for the texture shadows (our artists will innevitably mess it up), or can I hard code some of them? For example, when you call:
scene_manager->setShadowCameraSetup( cam_setup ), is there ever a time when you would want something other than the LiSPSMShadowCameraSetup ?

I think not, and I'm happy about reducing the complexity of setting up the shadow stuff already. Do other simplifications exist? What do you use for all these...and why?
scene_manager->setShadowTextureCount( 2 );
scene_manager->setShadowTextureSize( 512 );
scene_manager->setShadowFarDistance( 0.0 );
scene_manager->setShadowDirLightTextureOffset( 0.9 );
scene_manager->setShadowTextureFadeStart( 0.7 );
scene_manager->setShadowTextureFadeEnd( 0.9 );
scene_manager->setShadowTextureSelfShadow( false );

Many thanks.