Having worked all sides of the fence in the 20 years I've been mucking about with computers, I think we can safely surmise the following: DAZ make models, if poser goes tits-up they stuck with a shrinking market with no way to display thier goods. So they need to create some kind of app that they can give away free to show off thier buyable content. At the very least this will need some kind of industry standard renderer, the better it makes the models look, the better it serves the purposes for which it's built. Daz have stated publically that Studio will load .obj and .pz3 files, so unless you have another tool to manipulate .cr2 & .pz3 files, etc. You'll still need poser. The interface won't look like poser's if only because they could be busted for "look and feel" (copying an interface) and most people outside of "the family" think poser's interface is "quirky" if not downright unprofessional.. It will be smaller and faster, and wont do everything poser does, (and certainly not the way poser does it :) This is because it's being written from the ground up and it uses OpenGL which can be hardware accelerated. In doing so it can avoid the "cruft" that is the codebase that both CL and poser are wedded to. It won't be as easy to use as poser, (nothing is) but if they want to carry thier current user base with them it will be simpler, on a fundamental level, than most professional 3D apps, becuase what really hurt P5 was not so much that it didn't work, but that it was hard to get it to do things that didn't work. At least harder IMO, than the equivalent function in poser4. It'll be modular, (because all modern 3D programs are) and the plugins will be more complicated than the base program, because people who buy extra bits will be expecting bells and whistles, with the emphasis here on the word "buy". It will have bugs, all programs do. Whether it the second comming or a fossilised turd is something we'll only be able to tell once we get our mits on it, and then opinions will differ as to the state of the emporers clothes... :) later jb