***"SubD let me breathe new life into older meshes, and allowed newer ones to bend in amazing ways without tearing things up. "***

And the advantages  for  us animators who can smoothly animate  a nice low poly mesh and simply hit the Sub D button before render time  are GREAT!!..( pic attached)

"Am I getting confuded in the rush of revisionist history or didn't Poser get FireFly and the FaceRoom (and possibly other bits) from someone else?"

AFAIK the Cloth Room was ( Leased/bought??)
From "Size8software"
I think Firefly is written internally by SM at this point.

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