Speaking of Vicky 4 - you know what I discovered today?

I was farting around at lunch, stuck in the server room waiting for an install, so I fire up D|S on my laptop.

Now, this laptop isn't exactly a powerhouse: Latitude E6400 w/ a Core2Duo, 4GB RAM, Intel integrated video... and running Windows 7 Enterprise. But wahey - I got a 128GB geek stick with my runtimes backed up on it, so I get and install D|S real quick for giggles and plug in the stick.

Given the constraints (hell, even my ancient dual G5 Mac runs faster for CG), I decide to fart around with an old V3 figure. Then, I remembered that D|S now comes with subdivision, so I give it a shot on the figure.

You know what? SubD makes even the worst joints on V3 not only bearable, but looked pretty damned awesome. And get this - in spite of SubD, it still ran lighter on the resources than V4... suddenly I had a shitload of stuff I hadn't messed with in years, all sitting and ready to mess with again, with results that (IMHO) rival V4 and all her stuff.