Getting there...

On Sunday I spent way too much time dealing with a crisis of Renderosity's making. I am the anonymous "distressed member" who was afraid I was a victim of the weirdest hacking ever. I'm still not happy about the situation, especially since they haven't actually gotten back to me personally about the problem after figuring out what it was. I stumbled upon the thread.

In addition to uploading some of my freebies without bothering to warn me, they also deleted several, again no warning. If they'd just let me know there was a problem, I could have fixed it (and BTW, the files they uploaded are out of date. English Bob has the most recent at Morphography, hosted with my permission and thanks.)

Anyway, I lost some time on Sunday. And to be honest, adding morphs is really boring. It's mainly "load up a magnet set, check for pokeage, spawn morph, lather, rinse, repeat."
I'm doing my best on the V4 version to support as many of the derivative figures as possible, as well as Morphs++. For the full dress, Aiko and The Girl were fine, but I was only able to add two of the four She Freak variations and about half the Stephanies. See, I generally use magnet sets to add the morphs. The She Freak is so muscular that her shins go right out the back of the skirt, and the magnet sets don't look right fixing that. For two of them, I was able to use magnets on the top and then the cloth simulator to fix the skirt, but the other two change enough at the waist joint to break the mesh in half when I try that. The version that's just the blouse will have all 4 She Freaks, but only two on the dress.

After slogging through that, I started on the Stephanies, and let me tell you, when I saw that some of her fluffier versions also poked the shins out the back, I lost my will to live for a moment. Then I decided just not to bugger with it. If you absolutely must use Ella or Grace, you can use the blouse and you're on your own for a skirt.

All I've got left to do now is match the V4 Morphs ++, make thumbnails, and package the things.

Oh, exciting news! Marvelous Design had just gone gold (as in within the last five hours "just"), and is available for $99 for a non-commercial license until February!