Sigh.  Don't you love it when the response editor eats a post?  Let's see if I can recreate my earlier response which never was....

I kind of think the way to handle "areas of detail" or "folded-over" would be to identify those vertices, then move them together with nearest verts or polys somehow.  I haven't thought about it a lot....

I think the cylindrical "mapping" for shrink might give better restulrs than just using the object's normals, but it wouldn't have detail preservation or the ability to handle layered meshes, as you note.  Everything just collapses on top of underlying layers.

Hee hee.  He said "diddle".

Lots of good ideas.  :D  I'm experiementing with another one, which I won't talk about yet, because I have no idea whether I can pull it off....  <shifty-eyed emoticon>  Just a test of the new .pyd.  Ultimately, all of this should (hopefully) be useful for the overall TDMT effort....

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.