-Timberwolf- posted at 9:50AM Mon, 21 January 2019 - #4343947

All you're mentioning has been said a thousand times before again and again.

...and yet mot much has been done to address them. Why?

I don't think individual vendors are going to get everyone out of this hole. At least not anymore... this is something SM needs to help address, big-time.

So the answer is: Either go on using V4 forever, because there won't be coming a V4 killer, or go use Project Evolution.

Can PE do everything (or even a majority of the things) mentioned up there? I daresay the answer is no - at least not yet (unless you think, say, meticulously morph-brushing your way out of poke-through on converted clothing is an acceptable answer... let's just say it's not.)

I don't use V4 anymore, I converted my shiz a long time ago, so I have no dog in this fight... in that vein, I ask you to look at it objectively: What does it take to use Vicky 4 stuff (morphs, textures, hair, clothing, poses, etc) in PE? If it isn't a simple act that takes just a couple clicks and less than 30 seconds, can be one-and-done in less than 5 minutes the case of morphed figures, or as an alternative be done in a batch of conversions of multiple files by way of an external application? It fails. This is the yardstick, because it's what the competition can already do, and already does. Just stating, and not complaining or bragging, I promise.

The stuff is there - why not build a means (or four) to use it efficiently and easily on a new figure?

This is what you gotta put up with: " Where are the V4 UV Maps so I can use my textures? Why does clothing require meticulous touch-ups in most cases? Why can I not transfer my MegaMassiveCutieSlutPie3000 morphs from Vicky 4 to PE in just a few clicks and less than 5 minutes? " I promise I'm not busting your nether spheres here either - I'm just asking questions that $world is going to ask... and they're going to compare the answers they get with, well, you know...

All that said, PE looks massively promising. It actually goes a helluva lot farther than any other non-Vicky/Genesis figure to date.

I'll even go far enough to say that Smith Micro had damned well better be paying Erogenesis to start building towards my little to-do list, and lend him a developer besides.

I just hope it can catch up in time.