"...to add such modern day functionality ,like hardware acceleration, to poser will require a TOTAL rewrite of the Core program." So? Why do you assume that e-frontiers won't rewrite the Poser program from the core up? My very point is that from this moment on, ANYTHING can happen. It's a new playing field, and this e-frontiers development might just put Poser back on the map. E-frontiers seems, at first glance, to have the know-how, the interest and the resources to fix the program. Also, since I'm an animator, Daz Studio's free base application is a meaningless toy to me because it doesn't support animation. And when animation gets implimented, Daz has already stated that they will charge for the add-on. So it isn't really free, is it? And we still can't overlook the fact that when Daz Studio does arrive (hopefully soon) it will probably be no less buggy than Poser 5, so both programs are starting dead even as far as I'm concerned. Sorry, Daz Studio no longer has the edge. It's a horse race. -jjsemp