First of all - pakled made an excellent point and may have hit on a real "EUREKA" principle here. Take APOLLO MAXIMUS, I have that figure. You can make this figure male, female, hermaphroditic, nueterian, black, white, yellow, brown, red, and green. He can be from Arkansas, or Arabia - China or Charleston South Carolina - Maryland or Mars. He can be made into a wafey little asian chic JUST LIKE AIKO OR MAYA DOLL, a buxom beauty JUST LIKE VICTORIA, a dude JUST LIKE MIKE, HIRO, DAVID, G2JAMES, and the VICTORIA MALE FIGURES, or he can be a muscular giant JUST LIKE THE FREAK OR EVEN SIXUS 1's BEHEMOTH. He can be ANYONE! A SUPER POLYMORPHIC PRO GRADE MASTERPIECE!!!

 APOLLO MAXIMUS also renders superbly, realisticly, and beautifully. APOLLO MAXIMUS is like getting 3000 figures in one package. If you had enough supporting clothing, props, and materials for this figure (which is ironically the problem) - IT WOULD BE THE ONLY FIGURE THAT YOU WOULD EVER NEED - PERIOD! The clincher about this perfect all purpose actor? THE COMPLETE APOLLO MAXIMUS FIGURE IS TOTALLY FREE - NO STRINGS - THANK GOD!!!

Now herein is the puzzle of the ages. EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT APOLLO MAXIMUS. My question is - why isn't the freebie sections of these sites dedicated to almost exclusively APOLLO MAXIMUS clothing, morphs, accessories, and textures? WHY???!!!! It's a mystery like Bigfoot, UFOs, The Loch Ness Monster, and why women hate you enough to kill you just because you left the toilet seat up. WHY??!!!

Almost EVERY freebie offering that I've ever seen deals with something that you have to have already paid a fortune for. NOBODY that I know of is getting any deals under the table or off to the side from Smith Micro or DAZ for making freebies that hinge upon ownership of these pricey figures. If they WERE getting at least a discount coupon or two from these guys for doing this - then I'de say "SURE - MAKES SENSE!" - But they ARE NOT!!!

APOLLO MAXIMUS is like clay. If you want a goofy cartoony character - HE CAN BE THAT!
If you want a sexy rail thin supermodel, HE CAN BE THAT!
If you want a voluptious fat woman - HE CAN BE THAT!   If you want a terrifieing alien or monster - HE CAN BE THAT! HE CAN BE TWEAKED TO BE ANYTHING! Short, fat , thin , human, mutant, alien, male, female, inbetween, neither, any nationality, any race, any age.

So WHY don't I only use him and noone else? Simple - hardly anyone bothers to create that much supportive material for him at all! He is NOT as well supported as Victoria or the other figures - if he were, I would be willing to PAY FOR HIM, simply because he is such a versatile figure that I could tell DAZ and SMITH MICRO to go take a shower on the whole damn deal.

Ponder that one for a while!  I'm also concerned that AM might disappear all together because he's not getting the P.R. he needs to stay existant. Almost seems like an orchestrated conspiracy. This is strange in the main because APOLLO MAXIMUS technically renders EVERY OTHER FIGURE MADE COMPLETELY OBSOLETE!!!!!!

Also - yes - my projects will be as backwards compatible as possible, because I'm tired of days of work being reduced to obsolete garbage overnight.