Quote -  i am monitoring the situation, but one great advantage of poser - which led to users developing mat files and all sorts of other great things that the makers of poser never intended, is the ability to "hack"poser files which are just text files.
  Daz can't do that can it?
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A scene file is closed, but DS' presets are just script files- the ASCII versions (.ds) can be edited in anything, unencrypted binary (.dsb) files can be edited with the free Scripting SDK's editor plugin. It's as if Poser's pose files and so on were written in Python - you can do anything the scripting language allows (for example, the DS material presets I did for last year's forum free bei asked the user how full they anted their glass/bottle, and what they wanted in it). However, it isn't the same kind of hacking as a Poser file allows - it's actual code.