Aeneas, As optimistic as I am about the ultimate outcome for Jessie's huge success, I agree that right now it is a botch and a stumble at the start. But I am buoyed by this: no such blunder was made with James! He is great. The poly count is about the same, around 110,000, and his mesh must be in a family with Jessi, so something just went wrong with the rigging of Jessi. I predict it will be fixed, including a possible new rig, and the blunder out of the gate will be long forgotten in a month or two. In other words...far from fatal, either for the character or for Curious Labs. When you look past this, to the long term, the other thing you said is more significant..."The main problem [for Daz] is that a new method [of rigging] cannot be implemented without causing the old meshes, which means all that was ever created, become useless." Daz is sutured into the Unimesh, almost assuredly for VickiePro and beyond. ::::: Opera :::::