So  backwards compatibility was a big selling point for V8 ... How about the new girl ?

Judging from last night's presentation, V9 will not be backward compatible.  I believe that stream is still available on YouTube.

Clothing will have an autofit clone. Some things will work others won't...shoes for example.

Cayman Island iirc is doing a uv tool for genesis 3 and 8 to 9

Poses they looked like they had an autoconverter built into ds on the video but it could be a separate tool that will require purchasing.

I think the pose converter was a separate tool from a PA (in fact Jay mentioned a second one too).

thanks Richard, as I said earlier I was unsure about that. On the video it looked like part of DS but I'd be surprised if that was the case.

Not sure if they moved the T pose again, but as for the bones, they changed the name of the four central ones, so at a minimum you will have to rename the abs and chest bones but beyond that, repositioning and scaling maybe... i wont find out as i get better results with G8F than what has been posted with G9F, as Daz still wont go mad with shaders, whereas i have, and the only thing i took away from G8.1F was the new PBR Uber shader just to add even more depth, but sadly they removed chromatic from spectral rendering, but i have now found a work around for that.