(can't resist sticking my nose in. sorry if this posts double.. software seems to have eaten first attempt..) I am amused at the comments that Poser figures should look the same in Bryce as they do in Poser. How do you figure that? The main difference is simple: lighting. It is the difference between "studio" lighting and bright natural "sun" lighting. Any girl can tell you about that. Heck, ever walk outside and realize one of your socks is back and one is blue? I can set up lighting in Bryce to imitate the very flattering lighting in Poser and get the same basic results. But when I am using all the lightin available to me, yes, some adjustments are needed. I don't find that unreasonable. I would like to see the figures smoother, but remember, you are changing from native Poser to flat .obj. The fault is the format or at best, Poser's. I don't see the figures look better in other apps, they always need smoothing. Smoothing such a dense mesh comes at a huge price... size. And I can't speak for Vue, but I find importing period a bother, importing into Bryce seems pretty straight forward. I'll agree, Meta should have integrated these two. But then Meta should have done alot of things. I'm surprised at the disgruntlement. I've seen and heard alot, and think this at least should be called a major upgrade. One thing I think many forget is that Corel just spent a huge expenditure on purchasing Bryce and some key engineers. They need some return on that, much more then they could get from the few sales of those just now buying Bryce 4. Without that, there will be no Bryce 6, maybe no Bryce. Do we want that? And I am vastly reassured to see "our" Bryce is still there, some enhancements, but the same software we all love. I think they are offering a nice little treat here, enough to make this totally legitimate. This whole thing to me seems a winning situation. Oh, and Amazon is now taking preorder with a release date of July 10th. ok, off my soapbox. m.