I'm surprised that Daz is selling a pay for version of D/S, I thought they had purchased Carrara for the purpose of having more functionality with Poser Figures and environments.  Yes, a lot of the features had been available as plugins, like Global Illumination with the light studio plugin, and ambient occlusion with another.  I wonder if the "new features" will actually be integrated into the program, or whether they will just be plugins that they threw in for the higher price.

I was tempted to get Poser Pro 7, but I'll wait now for Poser 8--a lot of the "pro" features are stuff I'd never use anyway.  I was going to buy Poser Pro 7 when they were including the Quidam add on, but that fell through :0( .