Actually your somewhat behind the times on this. I proposed it almost immediately after the launch of P5 and before the development of Studio was publically announced. The community reaction was, on the whole, lukewarm, which is why it hasn't been widely publicised since. Nevertheless, specifications have been made and reviewed and there is prototype code and work on serialisation has begun. Although while I've been tied up with other work recently the project is very much alive and is likely to go public sometime in the first half of next year under the Mozilla public license. The concept has evolved from a stand-alone "Poser-like" application into a general purpose scene description core library with all of the peripheral elements (user interfaces, im/exporters and renders) defined through the plugin modular interface. In conjunction with MPL this means it could also be considered as a royalty-free library replacement core for Poser, DAZ Studios and other existing applications as well as the core library for network rendering clients and format conversion utilities. Basic user interface and rendering interface modules are to be developed and included as part of the project, so that it will be usable as a stand-alone application, but its hoped that independent developers will contribute more sophisticated interface elements, e.g. open-gl support. If you want to go it alone, however, the best advice I can give is to start a project on sourceforge, which provides hosting, sharing and source control for open source applications. Bill