"hey Bagginsbill..have you looked at D|S3 recently?..I'd love to see what you could do in shader builder & shader mixer which seems to offer many things Poser does and some...the only thing D|S users are lacking now is a 'D|S Bagginsbill'"

I second that.

Actually, BB, I think you'd be impressed by  DS 3. Not just by Shader Builder/Mixer, but by the way DAZ have opened up the whole of DS to 3rd-party coders. In fact, the full DS SDK is now completely free, (it used to cost $1000), and allows anyone to delve deep into DS and come up with all sorts of cool plug-ins and scripts. The documentation is also pretty thorough so it's not difficult to get started.

Like Stonemason, I stick with the current (non-beta) public version. DAZ have now settled on a fairly simple system where they post a stable version on Download.com and have a 'beta' (but usually pretty stable) version available at DAZ. Plus at the moment, they have DS 3 which is in beta, but has some remarkable improvements and new features.

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