I remember the original thread here about AboranTouristCouncil's early endeavors with the IvyGenerator/V4 hybrid... apparently he was having some trouble with mesh distortion due to bits of the ivy falling outside of a joints spherical fall off zones. Can't seem to track down older threads with the search function like I used to.

Anyway, just to clarify a comment I made earlier about using a stripped V4 rig, I wasn't referring to the Daz V4 developer kit Cr2 but rather a stripped Cr2 created by editing the file in a text editor and removing the morphs, morph channels and groupings, magnets, readscript lines, ik information, materials. The advantage to this is that, unlike the Dev kit, the rig may still retain the head parts... something the Dryad figure/conformer would probably require. Strangely enough, years ago, an individual on the Daz forums (DavidGB) had created such files for V4/M4 and was linking the files there. Not sure if there was any controversy over such...