rogergordian, I spoke with Dan Farr regarding whether or not the Daz Studio base will be free after the beta testing & here's the skinny... There are NO plans to charge for the base version of Daz Studio (beta or final) as long as the sale of plugin modules & other content support it's free distribution. If, at some point in time economic conditions change after the free release of the final version of Studio 1.0, those plans may have to be reevaluated.