Thanks, I have done a few simple anims in Blender and DAZ and I am well aware of the time issue, actually I have not really done any serious animation in DAZ yet - I am still working out how to get good renders.

Blender OTOH I am now annoyed with because they brought in Cycles which means I now need a new computer to get the same render times I had before it. (Sometimes I think the coding geeks get caught up in newness rather than actual improvement.)

I'm really wanting to go all out for DAZ rendering I guess -  to cut down the time taken setting things up. Blender is great for modelling IMHO but it is easier to texture in DAZ once you have the UV maps set up.

I am still uncertain about how to rig in DAZ but if I work things out I'll post it here.