Mornin All. I came on board with Poser at version 3. Got on to Bryce version 3. Didn't get to Vue until version 4. I'm on Poser 5 now (not upgrading to 6 unless I have to), I have Bryce 5.5 and Vue 5, 5 Pro and then went to Infinite. As it stands now, Bryce can only compete with Vue to a point. If DAZ truly wishes to compete with Vue, they have a lot of work ahead of them and a very long way to go. They would need to make a "Pro version" of Bryce. The price the Bryce is at now, is a good price for the artist/hobbiest. I think that Eovia wanted to eliminate the middle man so to speak and not have the ability to use DAZ models in Carrara dependant on Poser. Thus the support for native Poser content. Plus it will eliminate the 40 minutes it takes to import a poser model into Carrara. For a free program, I think that DAZ Studio is nothing to sneeze at. Maybe it can't do all the things that Poser can, but after 6 incarnations, I'm not so hot about Poser anymore. They still have not fixed the issue with bump maps mapping to the correct node. If DAZ Studio continues to improve, I won't upgrade Poser. I would not mind seeing a module/interface/plug-in to go from DAZ Studio to Vue. Heck, I wouldn't mind the reverse either. I started a feedback thread at e-on http://www.e-onsoftware.com/support/ShowMessage.php?id=1133400690 and Matt pointed it out to the "big guys" to gauge the interest. If you have any interest, I would ask you to post to that thread. I would not mind either if Vue supported native Poser/DAZ Studio/DAZ Model content. I have not used Terregen that much, so really can't comment on it. I definitely don't have any of the high end apps either. I don't model and they cost a lot more than I can swing right now.