Texturists don't get as much respect as modellers, but for me, texturing is more difficult than modelling. Especially human skins. Not only that, it's work I don't enjoy doing. I'm not good at detail work. Never have been, probably never will be. I'm more than willing to pay to have someone else do it.

I am more than happy to pay for textures that make use of P5 nodes. It's gotten to the point that I'm reluctant to pay for textures that don't support P5. Unless they are both very good and very cheap.

It's probably not reasonable to expect merchants to make things for non-Millennium characters. It's clear where the money is, and it's in V3 and M3. Even other DAZ figures - V2, M2, David, SP3 - don't generate the kind of sales V3 and M3 do. Can't blame merchants for following the money.

Perhaps James and Jessi will catch on, but I'm not counting on it. Not because there's anything wrong with them, but because not everyone will buy Poser 6. Some people refuse to upgrade from P4, let alone PP and P5. And some people - maybe an awful lot of people - are using D|S. DAZ is giving away M3, V3, and Aiko now. Everyone can use them. Unless CL does the same with their figures, they won't make a dent in the DAZ domination of the market.