ssgbryan posted at 1:45PM Sat, 02 May 2020 - #4383951

"UNIFORM STANDARDS" are like communism - a red herring.

Many vendors DO NOT FOLLOW CURRENT STANDARDS THAT HAVE EXISTED FOR OVER A DECADE. How do you propose to get vendors to follow new ones?

LOL - software industry ain't any better...

(ref: https://xkcd.com/927/ )

But here's the thing - if a feature were compelling (market-wise), it will be implemented and it will sell (see also dForce, which to be honest I detest due to the loooooooooong simulation times, but the results are pretty, so... -shrug- . )

But, all that said, to the original topic, My go-tos tend to evolve, but for now...

Genesis 8, because I've painstakingly bumped a megaton of old Vicky 4 (and in some cases earlier) characters up to Genesis, G2, G3, and now G8. On the plus side, each iteration allows me to work over and improve the figure.

NearMe. Slightly long story, but... I originally got it for my stepdaughter when it first came out, to get her something cute besides the digital dress-up thing, something that could get her started with CG since she was massively into Anime at the time (seriously, I still have her DVD collection of Fruits Basket. It was a starting point for the two of us to bond when her mother and I got married; when she saw the massive pile of Anime DVDs I already had she immediately stopped thinking I was some intrusive asshat, so...) Anyrate, she fell in love with the mesh, actually made morphs for it, I helped convert a megaton of older stuff that I had to fit it, etc. I recently unearthed it in an old backup drive, and I use it a lot nowadays. Mostly, I make dumb comics-style stills with it and email the results to her once in awhile (she graduated HS back in 2013 and got married late last year.) I almost always get a phone call within a day of sending one though, which pleases her mother and I immensely.

LoloBot Same reason I keep NearMe... plus, it costs $0.00. Cute as hell, and I think Cassie squealed loud enough for me to hear it from here when I sent her the link.

Michael 2. See also my incredibly dumb avatar as to why. Between that and the old "Kabuki Hair", and all the texture conversion (old-school -> 3Delight -> iRay) and the SubD, etc... yeah, fuggit, I'm keeping it. Might eventually re-make it in G8 Male, but meh...