Any product that works with Poser is a plus overall and increases Poser's viability which is a very good thing. Most people who use Poser and want to get into modeling seem to want to be able to create their own clothing, make props of modify their figures. It seems like Shade will be able to do those things. Of course, you can do all of those even with a freeware modeler but you dont have any built in Poser support. The alternatives all seem to require plug-ins or 3rD party utilities and the applications they support, 3DS MAx, Lightwave, C4D and TruSpace are all priced higher than the entry level of Shade, from hundreds to thousands of dollars more. So, you get a modeler, integration of Poser content and a renderer that can produce drop dead gorgeous output, starting at $49. It seems like a no brainer to me for what most people want to do. Now that may not be the case for those who are already married to another package. Preferences in modeling tools are highly individual but I think clearly Shade would have been around and developed for this long if it weren't a capable product. It's new (to most of us) and different perhaps (what modeler isn't?), but I certainly hope it proves successful. If e-frontier has long term plans to develop integration with Vue as well as Poser then they will have a pretty complete 3D platform with modeling, rendering figure creation and landscape design. That seems like a much more viable strategy than hoping for Poser to make a lot of headway with breaking into the high end market of applications that are probably beyond the budgets or needs of most of us.

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