>> I dunno about DAZ|Studio being a "blip"

It's a blip in the sense that it doesnt have name recognition like Poser. After all this time, outside the immediate poserverse, it's just thought of as "oh yeah. that program like Poser". And I'd happily bet that if DAZ ever actually sold it, it wouldnt have that half-million downloads. People get it because it's free -- but tell me, do you actually use all the free stuff you download? I dont. Heck, I have DS in my archives. It was there, so I downloaded it. Have I used it? Nope. Opened it once, poked around a little, closed it, and never looked back. And when DAZ made it a necessity for you to have Studio installed before you could install Bryce 6.0. I wrote both of them off; when DAZ forces you to install something to use a pretty unrelated program, then IMHO they're really strong-arming the issue. It's really like saying, "Hey, I got a great jar of peanut butter over here, but before you can use it, you gotta use my loaf of bread!"

And sometimes Wonder Bread isnt the best brand out there. :-)

Just my 0.02.

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