I've just been reading about Eovia's new baby, Carrara 2. Looks like it's everything we've been waiting for, radiosity, caustics, depth of field, character boning and skinning, sub-division modelling, meta-balls, particles, environments, sky dome, physics, shockwave 3D export and all still in a familiar Metacreations/Poser user interface. It's release date is June and it's less than 300. Perhaps it's time we were let in on some of the secrets because if this imports Daz figures, why upgrade to Poser 5....