Google it, Wolf. I think you will find it interesting. Basically, it is a new, almost totally open file format intended to take content across applications. V4 was taken into XSI with the rigging intact, for example. And a full COLLADA supported export is supposed to be able to carry deformers, camera paths, lights, shaders, almost the whole magilla. And the format is designed to ignore whatever it hasn't been coded for completely, not try and do....whatever with it. The one gotcha is there is flag control for copyrighted content, so things that you can't export due to permissions won't export throught COLLADA either. If you had Poser, Vue, C4D, Max, Maya, & XSI and all had full COLLADA sharing support, you could build scene elements in all and shuffle them back and forth between them all to your heart's content. eF asked about COLLADA support for P8, so there is apparently some interest.