Quote - Joe, to be fair, in some respects, DAZ simply gave the community what it asked for: "WHY WONT MY PRETTY STEPHANIE TEXTURE WORK ON VICKIE! CANT YOU GUYS MAKE IT EASIER?"

And so they did, with the Unimesh. But the problem with the Unimesh, the way I see it anyway, is that it has to be so polygon intensive to anticipate ALL of the needs that it's like painting in oils, which is really suggestive of moving mud around. It makes this huge, weighty figures unavoidable, which means that unless you have a really powerful machine, you're severely limited in what you can and cannot create. I started to worry about this when I saw how Hiro3 could go from a skinny, smooth anime figure to a detailed, realistic muscleman: the polys needed for such a transformation dont appear out of nowhere, and displacement maps can only do so much.

Well, now we've taken it to the next logical step, I guess. And it's only going to get better (or worse, depending on your point of view).

As for the rigging video that Phantom put up, I have to admit, in all my years of working with the stuff, I never thought to look at the joints to correct that kind of mesh issue. No doubt this is the same problem I see with clothing converted in WW, and now I'll feel more confident about going into those and reworking them for a better fit.

That pretty much sums it up. One size fits all and ease of use comes at the cost of something else.  No matter how you shake it, somene is going to be unhappy and cry bloody murder. So, most businesses try to shoot for the majority. Result of that is a popular, versatile, but  somewhat average product.

Most people and places that do this as a business aren't going to spend exorbitant amount of time doing something merely for the bragging rights of having the most technically advanced product. Once you become a vendor, you realize that most people don't really care all that much about the latest and most advanced stuff.

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