No lightwave plug in that I've seen. Curious Labs does not produce plug-ins. Shade and Poser will not intermingle in the foreseeable future. Work on Poser 6 started roughly 3 to 6 months after Poser 5 was released. As in, before the first patch for P5. Curious Labs didn't relese the program only because it was demanded. The parent company at that time essentially gave them no choice -- they did not want, and did not plan, to release it the way it came out. They simply had no real choice in the matter at the time -- it was release it as it was, or cease to be. They will not repeat that again. Hardware support in Poser would kill the ability of the program to be used on the machines of people who buy more copies of it that we do. Don't get all hopefull for open GL, which is a bad means to an end. Ask instead that they improve what really irks you -- the display of transparency and the responsiveness of the preview window. If there are no new human figures in P6, it'll be a pretty serious change, lol. Animals: the horse is not just dead, the maggots are almost finsihed with it. Move on to the next one. P5 already supports light gels (most of the nodes can be assigned to a light). In order to bring over Bryce and Vue materials, those system would need to shift the way they create those matierals rather drastically. Shader structures between even the most expensive apps are not interchangeable -- you either have to go with a common rendering agent (a la renderman) or simply recreate them. Interesting thing about intuition is that it slides by logic. Poser and Shade have two different markets. We -- that is, the artist market -- are NOT the most important one. While there is a great deal of wonderful compatibility between the two already and that will most certainly be improved on, Poser will still be a stand alone, and shade will continue to be so as well. It makes a great deal of fiscal and market sense. But it doesn't give us what we all really want: the single app that does it all for under 300 bucks. model, pose, terrain, animate. that dream is still alive though. mebbe someday... (sorry for being somewhat terse in this -- busy day...)

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)