Wow! Thanks Debbie and Bat! What service!

OK, I sent him/her the message. Thanks!

My wish list:

• Fix all extant memory leaks.
• Augment the cloth modeler's particle engine to allow all objects to have mass assigned to their vertices, spring constants to the inter-vertex edges, and similar force fields to the edge angles and possible edge torsion angles as in molecular mechanics. This would allow "body bounce" as mentioned by several posters. "Mass maps," "Softness Maps." and "Elasticity Maps" would be needed to parameterize bounciness and fleshiness.
• Evolve cloth simulator to allow much finer-grained cloth models to allow realistic draping, folding, and wrinkling, and to avoid the strange tearing of coarser cloth models.
• Evolve the walk engine into a scriptable motion and gesture engine. Perhaps using XML, users could write scripts to define complex behaviors on a scene by scene basis. Such XML scripts could reference other scripts to define simultaneous movements, facial expressions, and gestures within a single figure, as well as simultaneous movement of different figures. Time points could be set to ensure precise coincidence of motion.
• Improved physics engine for above.
• Provide a GNU/Linux version, e.g. use wxWindows or QT KDE or something for the GUI?
• Open source the basic Poser engine so that the above improvements can be made in a reasonable amount of time without Curious Labs or Poser users needing Hollywood blockbuster budgets. Curious Labs could make money selling additional content, behavior scripts, maps for bounciness and fleshiness for existing figures, training videos, and other products. If DAZ wants to invade Poser's turf, CL will have to invade DAZ's.
• Add compatibility with POV Ray, or better yet allow its use as some kind of a plug-in renderer. It is much better and more versatile than Poser's. POV Ray scene files are human-readable, and fantastic scenes can be hand-coded. It is easy to generate and manipulate elements with macros and external programs written in any programming language. If Poser scenes could be written in POV Ray format, a huge amount of resources would be made available. PoseRay can do a lot of that already.

What about the idea of buying both Amapi Designer and Carrara 2? It seems to me that there is some redundancy in functionality, but the basic reasoning would be to have both a good modeler and a good renderer. The current discounts offered by eovia are tempting... Has anyone out there done something like that?