Although it does go outside the scope of the thread: The "promised" exporters, from the start, were always noted to be externally developed tools (meaning that curious labs was not going to develop them, but that other companies were going to). So far we have: Mover (for Vue), TransPoser (for Carrara), Bodystudio by Reiss Studios (Maya and 3DSMax). Reiss Studios is working on the lightwave plug in and one other (and there is some conjecture that they are being held up in the LW development by the LW team) and just recently we found out that kuroyume is developing his own personal "content transfer" tool (my wording, not his) for C4D (it looks very cool. Sorta negates the need for Poser, in fact). So of the list you gave, 2 are already possible, and two are still coming. But Curious Labs never said they would make them. That is most likely not going to change -- curious labs does not develop plug-ins any longer. That japanese prog, Shade, is actually really cool. I've played around with an earlier version for the last couple years, and in my estimation it's more than on par with 3DSMax and Lightwave. Cheaper, too. Poser 6 will likely only have some limited transfer ability with it. Poser 7 will be much more integrated with it. Modularity is very unlikely, even in P7. The rooms methodology is likely to carry forward. While it is a weakness, it is part of Poser's nature -- a "core concept" if you will. Modularity belongs to the other guy. I'm hoping for a hybrid bone and weightmap system in P7, myself -- something truly cool. If I had the company, I would definitely say: make bones like everyone else only wishes they had, and make them easy. Well, given they sold the rights to the P4 figures off, they would have to farm out the manufacture of them again. Hopefully this time they wouldn't hamper development. I still have to wonder at what Cubed would have produced had they not been sorta hamstrung...

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)