There's Z-brush. It does modelling and texturing in 3D. Though it's not your typical modeller. It's really better for morphing an existing mesh than modelling, at least with regard to Poser items.

And there's the Blacksmith3D package. I haven't tried it, but I'm tempted. It's under $100, and includes a 3d paint program. It would be only $69 for me, because I own Extreme Morph 3D.

I have high hopes for P6, but I don't think it's going to hurt DAZ much. At least as far as content goes. Even if Jessi and James are the best figures the world has ever seen, it will be hard to overcome DAZ's head start. Judy isn't exactly keeping Dan Farr up at night, and far more people have Judy than will have Jessi any time soon.

It might be different if D|S didn't exist, and if DAZ weren't giving away M3, V3, and Aiko. But it does, and they are. Unless CL counters that with giveaways of their own, I can't see them making much of a dent.

PBM is right; most people are pretty happy with V3, and don't want to switch. Heck, some of DAZ's own figures are better than V3, at least as far as joints and posing goes. But many don't want to shell out for another figure. They're content with V3. Animators and people with less powerful computers might prefer lower-res figures, but probably 90% of Poser users do not animate, and the hardware problem is becoming less and less of an issue every day, as people inevitably replace aging computers with newer, faster models.

And the jury's still out on whether the P6 people are actually better than V3 and M3. They do look lower-res, but that's not considered an advantage by most. Kaimira, which everyone's so excited about, is has even more polys than V3, plus extra layers for textures maps. I'm not wild about V3's shoulders and arms, but IMO, Judy's are worse. Even EJ's. (Though An-An isn't bad.) I haven't seen any evidence that Jessi's any better. (And admittedly, some of it is just the limits of Poser itself. Maybe D|S will fix that. But if so, I have a feeling compatibility with Poser will suffer.)

Should be interesting to see what CL does with Content Paradise. Will they feature stuff for V3 and M3, the biggest sellers? Or will they only sell stuff for their own figures? Depends on whether the purpose of the store is to make money or to fight off DAZ, I guess.