Quote - So it goes without saying that any creator who wants his fugure to succeed should make some variation of it that is Texture Compliant with some popular figure!  That way he can tap in on some already extant resource!

dph

This sounds like a reasonable premise to me certainly. I have no notion at present of the technicalities involved here... but...

...personally, I have mostly V4 and M4 textures.

If any new figure I get accepts those textures via an alternative UV mapping for it, then that would certainly garner that figure a lot more usage from me... at least until I develop some more skill painting my own textures, I guess...

...or unless the new figure actually came with a hefty amount of skins available for it.

Cheers