Quote - Been told you can do the same thing using UVMapper in place of Compose 

Yes, but that's exactly the point of the update.  Export the mesh from Blender, load it in UVMapper, apply tthe groups, export it again. It's hardly a good workflow. It works but it's a kludge. Not to denigrate UVMapper or Compose, they served us well in the past but there is no reason to not have this all integrated in one tool. Blender can now be your one-stop-shop for modeling, morphing, UVMapping, and texturing. When using Blender to make new cloths of morphs of clothes, having to jump through so many apps every time you need to test the update adds substantial time.
Now you simply export to OBJ, launch Studio, run Morph Loader and you're done!

Paolo

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