“Just a note that G4 is not a standalone figure. Nor are the characters that Johnny Ragtop mentioned. But the line gets a little blurry with things that are radically reworked, like Anastasia. True, she is not a standalone figure, but so altered that it would be really misleading to say "Alyson 2.

It’s hard to tell the players without a scorecard; imagine the poor new user. Lyrra did a very useful history of the DAZ figures. It seems to me that there are (at least) three levels in the hierarchy. The original Stephanie would be called a ‘figure,’ but she was created from the Michael mesh. Then there probably a few ‘characters’ created using the Stephanie figure. Wash, rinse, repeat for the Millennium Girls created from Vickie’s mesh. My understanding is that Generation 3 used the same concept, (working from a single base mesh) to create the figures Michael 3, Victoria 3, Aiko 3 et al. Then, we have Generation 4, where the ‘figures’ are ‘morphs’, e.g. The Girl 4 is a morph of Victoria 4. I’m assuming that there was a single Generation 4 Unimesh base? *

*So leaving aside Genesis, we have ‘figures’ that are created from base meshes and we have ‘figures’ that are morphs of figures created from base meshes. Another thread at DAZ regarding Stephanie says that: 

“She was sized and shaped (by default) exactly like Victoria 2, and could wear the same clothes. But they had made her by reshaping Michael 2's mesh . So like him she had the right mesh in the right places for bulking up muscles … .”

I’m not sure I understand the difference between morphing (V4 to G4), and reshaping (M1/2 to Stephanie). Is the base mesh of relevance to anyone except those creating content – or even to them)? What is the functional definition of a ‘standalone’ figure? I know that’s perhaps less relevant, given the array of conversion and transfer utilities. It would be interesting to see an up to date compatibility grid of what can work with what, including notes for how the utilities fit in, e.g. X will work on Y and it will work on Z if you use utility _ (ran out of letters ÷).”

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RK - Heck, Elizabeth's been on the throne longer than that. A Queen has no competition :-)

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