i know next to zip, but here are a few poser utilities you might be interested in. multi-pass rendering: glowworm by poseworks easy material management: shader spider by poseworks simple particle system: particles by poseworks basic ragdoll & rigid body (i think that's the right term) physics: poser physics by face_off real skin shaders & ambient occlusion management system: see face_off's store here. there are several skin shader threads in forums showing other solutions. all around swiss army knife toolset: poser tool box by philc there are many free python utilities in the freestuff here, especially by ockham. a lot of ockham's scripts deal with animation. while nothing can get around inherent flaws like an inefficient rendering engine, a lot of people have done a lot of work to advance poser functionality.