QUOTE:
"As a lighting guru, you of all people should appreciate that the lighting and render engine is a major concern here."

• Yes, you're right. I'd love to see an overhaul of the render engine, but that comes second to full Poser campatibility. The reason being, such an ability will be the most important feature to the "majority" of users, and therefore shift the most units for DAZ.

QUOTE:
"Ofcourse, you're a marketing guru too as shown with your exploits of the previous year, and I claim to know nothing of marketing."

• DAZ need to step back, REALLY open-up, do a survey, and give us 'at least' the TOP TWO most requested features (and surprise surprise, guess what they'd probably be?).

QUOTE:
"There's no hidden real sting for vue or whatever. they're two apps being taken into two completely different directions. You can't call Vue5 Infinite a hobbyist market tool."

• Wrong, these two products ARE competitors, and the label of ANY app being either "Hobbyist" or "Professional" is not worth the CD-cover or box it's printed on. The artist using the app, is the only deciding factor - based on their ability.

QUOTE:
"Play Nice - I was talking to pumeco, actually. (I should have fully spelled out their name, lol)"

• So it's only pumeco that has to play nice? Hmmm well...not to worry sir. pumeco's on it's 'final' warning as far as I'm aware, so I'll be careful not to start a shit-storm :-D

DISCLAIMER:
pumeco is NOT anti: DAZ/BRYCE/STUDIO/E-ON/VUE/CL/POSER (all of which are cool).
This is just constructive discussion.

Len.
(BTW, "virtual-tit" makes the 3D-world go round - don't "knock" it)
(Pun intended)

The wait can be horrific, but the outcome can be worse - pumeco 2006