Quote - might be slightly o/t and i hate to say it, but i see the future as a basic stripped down program that you can buy add ons for to enable it to do what it is capable of. No disrespect to any vendor or programmer intended, but if for example Poserphysics is possible, why isnt it an intergral part of the software?, it's been around for a few years now, just speaking as an end user here, i never could get my head around the principle of buying add ons that made a program do what it was capable of...it's a bit like buying a tv and then finding out you needed to upgrade it to the colour enhancement module to watch anything but black and white......

If SM bought or licensed every add-on provided by the community, it would either severly cut their profits or increase the cost of the program significantly.  I don't think Poserphysics should be intergrated, as not everyone has a need for it.  I only want SM to encourage things like Poserphysics to be developed.  Let them worry about providing proper support to would-be plug-in developers in the form of documentation, communication and basic program stability.  If a 3rd party plug-in makes sense to include, then SM can always license or buy it later.  Plug ins by their nature deal with specific situations.  It's good that they are available, whether or not you need them.  It doesn't mean that something was missing from a program that someone saw fit to make a plug-in which expands upon the program's usefulness.  

In the case of soft bodies, no 3rd party has stepped forward with a true solution.  I don't know if the problem is that soft bodies are so hard to implement in general, or just that they might be difficult for a 3rd party to implement in the form of a plug-in.