Hmm. Since deleting the Collada plugin seems to revive things, tell us how it goes.... ;) It's going to be interesting to see how well the Firefly renderer performs as a node (as in, not saddled with the GUI and library overhead). It may not be Renderman, but then again no one here is Pixar. Combined with the Collada output of lights and camera paths, this will open the way to render figure animations in Poser, export the light and camera data into another app, and generate scene elements there ready for matchmoving....or even simple compositing. That alone is going to open up the animation use possibilities with Poser in environments where you don't have to own every bloody polygon. Studios probably wouldn't touch it (except maybe for storyboarding; 3D pre vis can really save headaches later); but only a fraction of users of those higher end apps work at such studios. A big chunk of them are solo contractors....and if Vickie and PoserPro cuts costs and time, then the real professionals (ie: those who make a living at this) will start using the tool more when needed. E-on software manages 4 software lines of their flagship product, and there is filterdown of tech at version changes (like the Ecosystems 1 module that gives V6Pro and Esprit access to the tech formerly only in V5I and Xstream). Once they have Collada support working, the next logical step is extending the apps ability to handle more import info; such as some kind of rigging translation. E-frontier has been adding the things we've been asking for; from the sound of things, the new PPro is also still in early beta...so there is no telling what may be added or changed before release.