Funny how thing work out. I was contacted by the DS product team to be a beta tester for DS3A. This happened right after I started working for SM on Poser 8. Prior to that, I had no "conflict of interest" and I probably would have started learning DS3 and posting on it.  But, given the timing, that didn't happen.

It wasn't because SM prevented me from doing it. It was my fear that my insider status with SM could be used to create trouble if by some chance Poser happened to have a new feature that was also a new (unknown) feature of DS3A. I didn't want there to be any chance that anybody could interpret that as feature espionage.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)