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and the announcement:

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an essential point amidst all the ooh's and aah's, quoting Nick Alamanos:

As far as what e-frontier bought.. well I doubt they bought Poser... for the code.. they wanted the user base. Coming from a programming background.. it make's no sense to even try to take poser from 5 to 6 using the same code base. It's buggy and it's old code.. I really don't think you can salvage anything. What would make sense is to take their shade package.. and give it the ability to read and save pz3 files; and to pose characters. then offer this new package to existing p5 users as an upgrade.. Well atleast that's what i hope they do.. because if they think they can touch the orginal 8 year old code and add to it.. forget.. it's probably spagetti code at the moment. So many hands have touched it that it would have to be re-written.

The app E-frontier makes is called Shade. It's a 3D app, but at the moment, they are limited to the Japanese market. Poser's community is huge (most thanks for that goes to DAZ with their Vickies and Michaels and dragons and...) and to Renderosity. If they get this community, they have a good start to bring their app into a worldwide position. If they can "merge" Poser's basic functionality in it, they may have a winner. Clever, very clever...

As for DAZ Studio: we wait, and hope. As personally, I don't like Poser5 at all. Neither the interface, nor its technical options.

What's more: we now can forget about plugins for Cinema, LW etc I suppose...