Daveso, punched back in from an e-bot and missed your post, made mine, then found Dan's post on the Poser forum.

I and NOT a DAZ fanboy, but I have had occation to use their products and deal with thier customer service people, I haven't touched DAZ Studio since it's first release. That said I can say that their customer service people have always been freindly and helpful, thier products are of good quality and as advertised. I have no reason to expect less in the future.

I have reservations... I never really pictured DAZ as a company as being beg enough to support the software they now own, Bryce, Carrara and Hexagon, added to thier original line of models and DAZ Studio. Plus I've seen them moving into other media areas, that book with Dick Van Dyke, and a couple of ads that seem to indicate some work in television and maybe movie SFX. I hope they haven't over extended themselves... I'd hate to loose ALL of thier resources because they bit off more than they could chew!

All of that off my chest, I'll wait and see... I LOVE Carrara! The features of Hex 2 have me working hard to lear to use Hex 1, and I find Hex 1 at least twice as compicated as Carrara's modellers! I hope this does turn out to be a positive move!

mike