Something that seems to be overlooked with D|S, which dissipated my enthusiasm for the product early on. It's a closed system.

IMHO the real success in Poser wasn't anything to do with the app per se, but that it used OBJ format and rational (well mostly rational ;-) extensions. I.e. all in TEXT format.

Poser is what it is today because of USERS, users who dug into, understood and EXTENDED Poser to way more than MetaCreations ever anticipated. With the sad recent "We don't support MAT files (even though we ship them in P6)" exception, these new tricks have been adopted or tolerated by the creators of Poser (but maybe that's just a side-effect of Curious Labs aversion to fixing prior-release bugs? ;-)

NONE OF THIS WILL HAPPEN WITH D|S. The formats are binary, proprietary and encrypted. I raised this in early beta in D|S forum, and to RobW, all said not a problem, will be workarounds, people will figure it out, etc., etc. BS! Does anyone really believe that the encoding process is there for any reason but data protection? (Officially it's for speed of loading! - On what, a 486?) Does anyone really believe DAZ wouldn't seek protection under the DMCA? Truly ironic when you consider that the single largest beneficiary of the current open Poser formats, extending them and building products based on that EULA-forbidden reverse engineering, is ... you guessed it, DAZ!!!

BTW EULA text highlighted byAnton is fairly common language for Software Applications, but I've not seen it used on a free app, nor have I seen it used to cover content. But there is one BIG difference here, it's usually written to be the other way around!!! I guess DAZ doesn't want eFrontier to do to them what they did to Curious Labs???

D|S will be a professional app, an adjunct to expensive apps like Lightwave, no doubt. But it'll never be a Poser replacement as we currently know and understand Poser.