If you think about the price of all the applications and features, players in the market it's really not hard to see where it's going, and it ain't poser to Vue. Though the players are right. Think Vue to Shade with full scene and features. Digital Elements already does a similar thing with World Builder 4 Pro with Max and Lightwave soon. Daz|Studio/bryce. Being able to use the trees and advanced terrain in Shade would be a boom to the Shade community especially with the Architecture plugin that comes with Shade 7 Pro, trees and buildings. It's one of Shades strong places in the market in Japan similar to CAD. If your efrontier new owners of CuriousLabs, and partnered with e-on makers of Vue to a plugin style importer Vue/shade makes sence as it opens markets for Shade and Vue, plus Shade already has the Poser Plugin so reinventing the wheel doesn't take a chisel and large boulder. look at the prices and the markets. Vue $200, Vue Pro $599. WorldBuilder just dropped it's price a great deal and now WB 4 is only $179 for genesis, or Pro for $699. Daz with daz studio and bryce is for hobbiests, some may use it for proffesional work, but not in the main stream. Stay tuned to next weeks crystal ball reading, sure it will be a doozie. "Poser bakes bread with internet PDA interface", though I think with ocham and python it already could do that soooo.