I've been using Poser and the various Vickies for nearly 20 years now. I'm well aware of exactly what Vicky 4 can and can't do, even after a decade of fixes and add-ons by vendors and freestuff providers (myself included).

I'm getting tired of the 'V4 can be anything' spiel. V4 - even the 4.2 version - can't be anything except a bizarre puffed up male body out of the box. She doesn't even come with nipples, you have to buy them separately - both the morphs and texture. Currently V4 is $30 ($50 for the interactive version which still doesn't even come close to the freedom of the basic LaFemme license) and comes with nothing but a 'demo' texture and a puffy male morph with a female face that not one person has ever used in over 10 years. Add $30 for the base texture (non-redistributable) and $30 for base morphs (again non-redistributable).

V4 has had over 10 years of polishing by mostly third-party vendors and freestuff providers (myself included), LaFemme has been out for one week. Even still, with all the $$ 'joint fixes' in the world (that nuke conforming clothing) V4 can not do this:

Part of the reason LaFemme came about is because I was sick and tired of constantly having to fix V4's joints. Half my V4 workflow was joint fixing. V4's bending is very obsolete, and anyone that is not aware of that has not used the recent Genesis figures for comparison or is looking at V4 through some seriously rose-colored glasses. I've used V4 as much as anyone here, and while there is a lot you can do with morphs and textures there are some problems that are simply not addressable with tweaks and 'fixes'. The archaic spherical falloff rigging, a 70k poly mesh full of poles that is not at all ideal for subdivision or HD morphing, etc.

This figure project started off with a group of Poser veterans realizing that Genesis is never coming natively to Poser, and Poser users are still stuck using a 15 year old figure that's starting to show its age. So we set out to build something from the ground up that uses modern rigging and all of the features available in Poser 11. This was back in Feb 2018, and everyone was working on the project for free with the intention of making this a free figure with a very redistribution-friendly license. Then last fall Smith Micro and Rendo took interest in the project and offered a little money to help move the project along. Not counting the months of free work earlier, this was about enough money for us to buy lunch and keep the lights on for the time everyone spent working on her. Everyone involved busted their ass and ended up working some crazy hours to get it finished in time for it's release. None of us make a cent on LaFemme 'purchases', our names are just on there as credit.

I was gone: I had completely uninstalled Poser and was off in D|S and doing modeling for games. This project got me back in Poser and creating for it again, and its fun.. except the part where I log in here every morning to read the latest bash post.

This is a BASE figure. A blank canvas. It's been out for one week: if you want something changed then be a little patient and someone will step up and do it, or learn new skills and try to change it yourself - it's easier than ever. The new Poser Morphing Tool is amazing, I find myself going to Zbrush less and less. The morphs and textures that come with LaFemme are completely redistributable so you can even make new characters/makeups/textures and put them in freestuff or sell them.

Most of the 'issues' being nitpicked about are actually already solved in the base figure. There are several morphs included that can fatten her fingers up, and scaling works perfectly so you can scale body parts up/down. Thigh gap? There's a post a few posts back with that addressed. You simply pose her out of her T-Pose and load the 'ThighsThicken' morph. I even uploaded a new default pose that does that for you.

Time permitting I'll gladly help provide tweaks and content, but if people want the variety of content that's available for V4 then they're going to have to be a little patient. A lot of vendors are working on new morphs and clothing and characters but creating quality Poser content is actually time-consuming as hell so the equivalent of 15 years of V4 content isn't going to appear overnight.

(doh, forgot the nudity tag)