1 - This isn't right. Kahi and I cannot ruin a perfectly good relationship by both being supportive of poser 6. It is another sign of the apocolypse. 2 - Note that this sort of shadowing system is required in order to use Image Based Lighting to it's utmost capability. IBL is the structure that includes HDRI. Combine HDRI with the current lighting system in place and that shadowing method, and you have one of the most powerful lighting models available in rendering today. It's easy to bash the poser light kit becuase the poser light kit is not easy to master. But to say that it is crap is wrong -- it's just very, very rarely used properly. Add a point light in, and well, heh. 3-"I really do hope that not all of the new features are light and render related, this doesn't excite me at all. " Well, then prepare to get excited.

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)