"VChick bug": Whatever. I haven't installed V4. My initial tests were with the MilDog, V3, Traveler's belly dance costume on Steph Petite, and the Heavy Horse. All of them had problems, some of which I've traced down, some of which (crumples in the HH mesh, caused by screwy assumptions about constraints I think) were total show stoppers.

My complaint is with the hype, not the functionality. And I'm truly tired of hearing the word "hype" used (even by me any more) as if it were a synonym for "lies." I suppose I'm one of the few not surprised by the lies. Welcome to the club, if you are just visiting.

Conceding the pretty special problems addressed here, such has having to give up eyesocket morphs that carry the eyeball along and hand morphs that control the dozen+ elements of the fingers (in Miki, not just the divine Ms V), I'm Ok with having to make some compromises to get the additional value in C5P. It was faster than P5, had vastly better lighting, offered better handling of cameras and shaders, and held its own when P6 came out. I could bring a finished PZ3 in and an hour later be zipping through refinement renders that took minutes rather than hours. Worth every penny, and if that's all you are looking for, and you don't need P7 support, find C5P on EBay.

I am not Ok with being misled about C6P handling PZ3 files transparently. Frankly, it doesn't handle them at all, as far as I'm concerned, and I'm not going to pay $100 for a plug-in that DAZ marketers claim with solve the problem (Fool me once, FU). Without TransPoser, importing PZ3 files means spending almost as long fixing them as it took to create them.

I am not Ok with being told that I was getting support for dynamic hair and cloth, only to learn that it's support for THEIR dynamic hair, and "Oh, heck's sake, did someone say 'cloth'? We didn't mean, you know, freakin' 'CLOTH'? But you just wait! We'll get you some and it will be just perfect!! That's a personal  promise!"
I'm not Ok with failing to mention that the single thing that prevents me from using C5P with Poser, incompatibility with P7, would be retained in C6P in spite of breathless BS about full Poser support.

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