Hmmmm.... That may not be as daft a move as it seems. As was pointed out, both Bryce and Poser share a common origin company....and there =was= considerable development work on B5 before it was axed by 'The New Corel'. If they -do- obtain it, then they would have the right to change the format import, and finally -make- Bryce fully Poser import compliant. A second deal to include something like the Suzanna animation proggie to import Poser anims into Bryce, and there you have something a lot of people have asked for over the years. Now consider content. Offering a cheaply priced repackage of the old P4 content as .br files. Upgrade the shader system, and you might just have something (or for that matter, what if the core of that shader system is destined to go under the hood of DS? P5 is catching on, and DS is slipping. This could be another financial hedge. DS -may- prove out to be a wonderful Lightwave plugin...only. But with Bryce, that would give them a terrain generation app compatible with Poser, again keeping in mind we don't know =what= hooks Metacreations may have had ready for usage, or were added before Corel stopped work. And it would be more P4-PA compatibility than P5....keeping in line with previous statements) Just getting Bryce is kinda nice. What they -do- with it is going to be the big issue...