The demo of Lightwave is useless. I tried years ago using it along with a book called The Lightwave Primer. I think I got to chapter 2 where it told me to save the scene. No luck. You can't save scenes in demo mode. So I kept using the one at school and finnaly bought myself a copy. Great program and lots and lots of inexpensive support material available. Through the years I have acquired TrueSpace, Carrara, Animation Master, and Shade. Carrara being the bottom line worst. If you want good integration between Poser and a 3d app you can't beat Shade in price or performance. With Poser 6 coming out you can be sure it's only going to get one heck of a lot better.