Making Single Shadow for all Display Objects
Here we test three different ways to make a single shadow for many objects. The best is to cache the scene, make a Bitmap() of the scene and set its blendmode to destination-out. Make the stage black and put a light rectangle over it as a backdrop. The blendmode will ignore the rectangle and go right to the stage color. Other options are ColorEffect and ShadowEffect but these take much more processing.
by Dr Abstract