Just a few random thoughts..... mostly directed in defense... or maybe not... of the nay sayers. Granted my husband was one of the biggest ones when he first heard the news.... They're emasculating Michael and giving him breats, slapping a $30 price tag on her and calling her a bargain? Okay admittedly, that sounds like a bad idea, especially considering how much most of us have paid for Victoria, the supposedly end all be all of Poser Female Models. It would almost seem that Daz was trying to make up for their own in ability to produce a better Victoria with more range. On paper... or rather in text it looks like a bad deal.... You're giving us another female? We've got scads of them already! We've got Victoria morphs and poses and textures and clothing coming out our ears!!! And now you're making something that tosses all that (save the clothing) out the window and making us buy a whole new product line to fit this new wonder you've created? Hasn't Daz got enough of our money with Vicky 2? Okay, now that I've gotten the attention of everyone who is going to likely flame me into next week ;) I'd like to say that this was an innitial impression. On paper, this all sounded like a /bad/ idea for all the reasons listed above... But being one of the lucky who purchased Michael 2 and who has gotten Stephanie and actually had a chance to play with her, I can actually see a great many of the advantages that were not evident in the 'text' above. I personally agree, Vicky is sadly lacking in several departments and Stephanie seems to be addressing lots of these from what I hear. The unfortunate part is that Vicky could not have been used to upgrade into Stephanie... or at the very least that Daz could not have included a Texture map that would have allowed Vicky's textures to be used on Stephanie. I know a great many people are working on this problem privately, but knowing your audience already has spent a fortune buying fantastic female textures for your ultimate female, producing a new female model with michael's texture map only seemed a bit on the side of shabby for me. I know I will hear back on this but that is my only complaint with Stephanie. Not that she's the mystery model, but that while she was intended to be /MUCH/ more versitile than Victoria in morphs, she is about as useful to Victoria fans as a new rock in the texture department. We either have to go to all the expense of buying your new textures or wait for three weeks for someone to put together a work around... or try to make a cheat ourselves. Personally I feel that DAZ could have gone to a smidge more effort and put together a remap so that she could use the textures we already have as well rather than trying to dig deeper into our pockets with yet another new series of Texture maps that have no real advantage over the current ones except now you can use Michael's facial, chest and pubic hair on a woman..... wow... big improvement ;) Again, I love Stephanie, she's a great model and well worth the price. She looks great /BUT/ I'm eagerly awaiting a good remap for her so that I can use her to the fullest extent of her potential! My only gripe is that DAZ didn't do that in the first place. We have all these ultra high resolution Vicky Maps, use em for heaven's sake, don't make us buy new ones or go through three days work to make a 'cheat' just so we can use your free gift!! It kinda takes the point out of 'free' don'tcha think? Lilfox