I thought the $500 price tag was for those that don't have P7. Those that do, there is the base package that gives just about the same except the 3 rendernodes instead of 10 and the extra collada exports. I don't recall a price being given for the base but was mentioned that would be much cheeper. By how much, we won't know until it is released.

I don't know, but wouldn't complaining about the price of the next version/ upgrade, because you are a coupleof versions behind, a bit silly? Do you think if you owned Vue 5, you should get Vue6I for the same price as those that owned Vue5I?

I am now a 64 bit freak too. So I would love a 64 bit version. Yes, it would be nice to have an SR that did that foru us, like eF did with Shade but that's not going to happen. I have nothing but bad luck with P7, crashes every few renders. probably because I didn't have any issue with P5 so it's my turn. But, I still have hope that it gets fixed and hope that going 64 bit will stop the crashing. Again, won't know until it is released.

DS is a good alternative. The base is free and then you get nickel and dimed to death to try and get it to what poser does. Doesn't DS cost more than Poser now.

It would be nice to hear anything on what is happening with Poser, but it does not look like that will happen, no worse than what Daz does. Actually, not as bad as Daz. We don't have to keep hearing the hype of something that may or may not happen In a Daz "SOON" time frame.