In my case, the first thing to remember is that every other 3d program I use is only a utility to POV-Ray. It's extremely frustrating when, if a pose isn't correct, I have to re-pose, re-export an .obj., re-convert it to POV, and then try to place it where I want it in the scene. It's even worse when poser can't seem to find all the files to the subject and I have to search through the mish-mash of the poser directories. Rotate, scale, translate are no problem, but there is no way to change the pose from within POV-Ray. And while a lot of the programs will export directly to POV-Ray, none of them will import from POV. My scene files go into c:ScenesFilename(Files) and all have all of the .inc files in the same directory that are needed for the entire scene. As far as windoze and .ini file support, the POV .ini is an instruction to POV-Ray, I don't think windoze even knows about it. Guess I'll just have to wait for the beta and try it myself to see if it's better than poser.