She has external morphs, so the morphs won't work in Poser 5. If you have Poser 6, you can load her up, then save her with external morphs disabled. Then she'll work in Poser 5.

Thanks. I only have Poser 5. I didn't upgrade since I only had Poser 5 about 7 months when Version 6 was released.

Okay, another issue I have with all of this is that it has the appearance of being a blatant "shoe in" to Poser 6. It's low poly to show off smoothing. Uses PMD files to show off external morph loading. I'm not against P6, in fact I'm a happy P6 user. I thought this may be an attempt at an Aiko 3 killer, regardless of how long this figure has been used in other parts of the world (yes, yes I know, since 1999). All of these things are okay. However, your potential markets for P4, PP, P5 and perhaps D/S users are getting cut out. This is besides the fact that her low poly nature makes her less useful for precise morphing and use in stills work. Sure offer a P6 version, but from a market standpoint why not offer a legacy version, a hires version and a legacy hires version? This just doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. Let's just make a big thick dividing line?

I think they're trying to force people to upgrade. They did the same thing with Miki and Koji (already on sale in Japan). They have PMD files. But if you save them with external morphs disabled, they work just fine in Poser 5. (Or P4, even.)

This is a mistake, IMO. Maybe if they were DAZ it would work. But they're not DAZ. They're not anywhere near to being DAZ. They're only hurting themselves, and their customers, by doing it this way. Support is everything for a Poser figure, and figures that can only be used by P6 owners are not going to have a lot of support.

I wonder if it would be legal for someone to save Yuki in P5-friendly format, and distribute her RTEncoded? Her page at Content Paradise does not say P6 is required, and some people who don't own P6 have already bought her.

Between all of the Daz Figures, former Daz figures, and now Anton's Apollo, I have enough figures to work with. If eFrontier wants to put out Poser 6 exclusive figures, that's their right, but it won't force me to upgrade until I'm good and ready to. I don't feel a need to upgrade something I bought, so soon after buying it.

Actually, I consider the addition of buttock groups more important than the chest/collar regrouping. It is possible to adjust the JPs on the collars and chest to compensate, whereas the lack of an entire body part is another thing entirely.

Thanks for answering my question. I was wondering. :) --Rebekah--

Terai Yuki is a popular Japanese icon. So popular that she was one of the main stars in the japanese-only PS2 game Primal Image, a game very much like Poser. Chose from 3 females and 1 male, pose them, and then take photos. From what i've seen, this version of Terai Yuki isn't based off her CGI self, but her low-poly PS2 game model self, hence why she's low poly. I've never played the game, but i don't think there were many expressions to choose from, explaining why she has few morphs. I'm still gonna buy her, but i'm hoping that they'll release a high rez version someday...it would be great! ^^

Hmmm... Senshi, I don't think that was what they meant when they said you should find a nice girl.

Sorry, what? You've just confused me...I was explaining a possible reason as to why she's low poly...please explain what you meant...