o.k., then we can only hope the SM weight-mapping thing will be easy to learn and that it will be in the paid beta of poser 9.  maybe they'll fix the transparency issue in the final release of poser 8 patch.  I've never used weight-mapping or even seen it in use.  perhaps there'll be another room in poser to paint on the model, or else we use APS to paint on the UVmap or the obj file.  they didn't say anything about weight-mapping in carrara yet AFAIK (which also uses daz models).