"i am curious as to why....when just outwardly looking at v3 and renda, the similarities are so obvious, why didn't one of these merchants look just a little deeper, like putting the meshes on top of one another and comparing. seems to me that renda looks so much like v3 that it would be common sense to make sure she was not a derivative before starting on weeks of work." i cant speak for 9 others, but i can tell you why i didnt. i dont have time: ive got a lot on my plate with work, renovating my home, unpacking, getting my car fixed, etc. i looked at it, i was disapppointed with the similarity to V3 and the mapping, and so i immediately set out to remorph the character into something more like what i envisioned it should be. does every merchant who creates a character, morph, texture, etc for a figure first take that figure into notepad and start cross-examining it down to the decimal place with all other figures it could be similar to? no. in fact, even though 1900 merchants got renda for free, and im sure several hundred purchased her, this thread itself wouldnt have come about unless rebekah posted information she gleaned from an ongoing investigation in the merchant forum - and it has been obvious that she had an agenda to begin with. people with agendas make time to pore over CR2s looking for incriminating evidence, simple working people are far too damn busy to. so yeah, im sure i should have looked into it. so should everyone else who worked on her. hindsight is 20/20. but if people are going to start expecting merchants to investigate every single item they product content for then our productivity is going to drop and our prices are going to go up. its just not practical. i took it on faith that the work was original. ive learned my lesson. " If Renda and V3 are so close, maybe the addon products could be converted to V3 addon products?" the meshes are completely different, and so is the UV mapping. which means anyone who created morphs, or textures for her, is SOOL. perhaps someone who created clothing for the default body can tweak it a bit with some morphs and re-release it for V3, but that doesnt help me since i just finished modelling a set for my Redux body last night, which is totally different. nothing for us to do but sit here and see how it unfolds, and what the final verdict and resolution will be. if its just the CR2 and the JPs/morphs/rigging, then they could possibly get someone else to re-rig renda. if this is done, the add-on products will still work.