Daz is committed to supporting Lightwave, check their site-- that doesn't mean their proggie will support it immediately but it will, I'm fairly sure, eventually. Poser 5 doesn't supoort Lightwave now-- none of the new stuff in Poser 5 is transportable to any other renderer: hair, cloth, materials. [I'm right on the hair, I may be wrong on the others, someone will say] Poser 4 and Pro Pack work with some version of Lightwave and are probably not going to be updated. If I only had Poser 4 now, I would wait or buy Pro pack-- in fact, I just bought Pro Pack. Poser 5 is still not stable for everyone and this may be as stable as it's going to get. Bottom line we do not know when Daz Studio is going to comeout. Could be Jan-- one rumor, could be next Summer. Could be later. No one wants anything like the bugfest we just got. Emily