Quote - Eh I'm not worried about how they handle legacy content, I wouldn't be surprised if they just implement some kind of flag in CR2 or other Poser file format that says "Use Weight Mapping" and if it's not present then default to the old system - just speaking as a clothing content creator, if the base morph is a featureless androgynous thing, and you're expected to morph the conformer to fit whatever target the user picks, that's going to be an immense amount of labor.  Content creators won't be excited to do that, and users won't be excited to pay for it.  Plus the results of that kind of thing cannot ever be made to mix well (even if you can make them look GOOD, which is dubious).

I haven't read the whole thread, but I didn't want to get there and forget to comment about this. I understand the concern on the issue above, but I imagine that even if we end up with one single mesh for any shape, there will be still some "standard", male-female predefined shapes, which would be a starting point for modelers and content creators to start at. Then one could state a piece of clothing is compatible with "Gen5 Female" or "Gen5 Male" only. It doesn't mean every piece of clothing from then on should work with any shape of the figure, just that, hypothetically, it could.