bill, thx fr the clarification on the alpha and beta. what do they call the version prior to the alpha -
e.g. the phase in which they were still entertaining suggestions in regard to replacing or
improving FFRender with various GUIs and new features?

anyway, it appears congratulations are in order in regard to the inclusion of your GC shader items
in a soon-to-be-released product, possibly even poser 8 itself.