Quote - Same here. I really do not like V4 at all, even after all these years of trying to use her. There are enough morphs and fixes for V3 that IMHO, makes her more realistic looking and able to move and bend just as well as V4. I think it was a huge mistake to merge the V4 mesh with Aiko and the Girl...the end result is the supposed "realistic" woman just looks way too soft and 'toon like to me (and is it just me, or does it seems like 95% of the V4 characters for sale here seem to be some variation of the "racoon eyed lolita' doll...they don't look like a real woman at all).

I largely agree with your assessment of characters available, but it's not the fault of the mesh. I can easily get a more normal look even just using Morphs++, and moreso with Argile (which isn't even particularly robust as a sculpting act). If blame is to be laid, you can probably blame people for buying the same kinds of products over and over.

But personally, when I buy a character set, I very rarely use the morph. The primary thing I look for is a good quality texture.

And FWIW, the V4 mesh was not "merged" with Aiko and the Girl. Those products were added on as morphs to her mesh long after her creation, and the same could probably have been done with the Gen 3 figures if DAZ had really wanted to (not sure about rigging tho).

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