Quote - Even if so, it may not end up being a big deal in Poser-verse if SM has to rebuild Poser for Daz' big news to matter to us.

Something that SM has alreay said (and repeated) that they are not going to do.

Talking about something that does exist, Blender 2.62 is days from the candidate release. In this version, among the goodies, Cycles render passes and booleans done using Carve library (read Blender becomes really capabable of CSG modeling). BMesh work continues (target still 2.63 - 2.64).

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2