Quote - About my only gripe with Python is I haven't found a really good IDE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_SDK

Eclipse will run on anything that can run Java, and SDKs are available for many languages including Python.

Komodo works fine as well.

 

Quote - Why on earth would a professional Houdini artist bother to bring in a genesis mesh from some "DSON"importer

They would not waste their time doing so. It would require far to much work to get it to animate properly in an enviroment that accels in animations and physics. Most high end figures use as few morphs as possible and as many bones as needed to replace the morphs.

You rarely see skeletons like this in Poser.....

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