soulhuntre, you read my mind :-) i agree easily with all but the seventh point (no, it's not point, that was german, ahhh... don't know any more). at least from the marketing point of view it would be self destructive for cl to make it work like this. who would go back to poser? who would work with poser if it would be possible to pose your meshes and to morph them within max? but maybe as a third party plug in? i don't even think that it should be hard to translate poser ik-system to character studio... what i'd really like to see is ability to pick single vertices (with the soft selection from max) in the next update. protruding body parts could be easily solved this way, without having to write the whole engine anew...