In fact, the enhancement you describe, smallspace, looks like the render engine of Poser 5 will use specific features of recent high end graphic cards and DirectX. For convincing you, go search the specifications of the new ATI Radeon 9700 card : The Micro Polygon rendering option is what is called TrueForm for ATI and T&L for NVidia. The Displacement Mapping is a technology introduced with the upcoming DirectX9 and is announced supported by the Radeon 9700 and Probably the upcoming NV30 graphic card from NVidia. Now, my thoughts about this is that this technologies are Hardware features that is available for the most recent graphic cards (TrueForm/T&L available only for graphic cards supporting DirectX8) or even the last or just announced cards (Displacement Mapping only for DirectX9 graphic cards). So, what about most of us ? Some will benefit from the micro-polygon announced rendering option, those who have at least a GeForce 3 (or this generation of cards) but displacement mapping will only be available if you choose to purchase another card... And for others ? Well, if my suppositions are good, you will take benefits of procedural materials... Now, about your wonderings, as Vue d'Esprit use an only software rendering, you'll not be able to benefit from the new technologies introduced with Poser 5. But we'll have to consider two things : FIRST - Introducing some features in a rendering engine does not include that this engine will be really good, only that it will be better than the previous one. I mean that under the Vue's rendering engine, there are lots and lots of features for having the 'realistic' looking renders that we all like. Lightwave was having a really good rendering engine when it was decided to make Ozone. The question is : 'will the Poser 5's rendering engine be goo to the point it will support a Ozone-like plug-in ?'. I don't say 'No'. I just say 'time will tell'... SECOND - This will probably not mean that you'll not be able to import Poser figures. But they'll don't look like they will with Poser rendering. For supporting the new enhancement that Curious Lab will bring to Poser 5, I suppose this will need that Vue break from software rendering to hardware rendering. As I also suppose that it mean a complete re-writing of the engine, I doubt a patch will solve the whole problem. And if I'm true, full support of poser's model will need a waiting for Vue 5... This (long) message is only calculations and suppositions and we'll have to wail Curious Lab's and E-On's annoucement. 'Time will tell'... Argentium Thri'ile