A better analogy would be with Photoshop. PS has it's own propietary format, PSD, but it imports jpeg, tiff, bmp, etc. If it didn't, people would still use it, but it would be nowhere near as popular as it is. DAZ can support whatever they like, but if they want their app to be as user-friendly as possible, they'll at least try to make it compatible with the vast majority of figures, and not just ones sold through their store. This is just simple business sense. The more people can do with software, the more they'll use it. mac