On the "Goodbye Poser" thread, someone made the interesting speculation that Daz3d's Victoria 4 will only be functional within the Daz Studio application. This sounds like commercial suicide, but with qualifications, it kind of makes sense: 1. Poser is behind the times in terms of rigging. Weight-based rigging would improve the figure, but Poser6 can't handle it. If Daz created a weight-based plugin for Studio and released it along with a weight-based V4, they would have the next step forward in the evolution of 3d figures, and a powerful incentive for people to migrate to their platform. 2. e-Frontier itself may be working on weight-based figures for Poser 7. If they are, it would be their figures that would have it, and Daz figures would not. It might even be proprietary, freezing Daz out of the next step in figure evolution. So it's risky for Daz not to pursue option #1 above. 3. Daz has the option of releasing different versions of their figure, one for Poser, and an advanced version for Studio. That way their financial risk would be minimized. What I don't know is-- A. Can weight-based rigging (and other innovations)really make that much of a difference? Is it going to be worth it to the customers? B. How interchangable can a figure like this be? Can you use the same textures? Is it a big deal for the manufacturer to create the different versions described in #3? C. Is e-Frontier almost there anyway? Is the new Fei-Fei character a weight-based character posable in Shade?