Interesting thread, but boy howdy...  I sure hope Daz largely ignores it.  I mean, if they make V4 so that folks who want to can morph her into a "realistically proportioned" female figure, I have no objection in principle; but I am more interested in a V4 mesh which lets me morph her into any shape I want, "realistic" or not.  That means keeping enough polygons in those areas of Vicky's anatomy where significant changes in body proportions don't make the mesh break down or get too blocky.

All I kept thinking as I scrolled through the messages here was "great, now we have the Realism Police."  How long before they bang on Daz' door and pressure them to alter their meshes so far toward the "realism" end of the spectrum that the mesh can't do what I want it to do any more (i.e., Daz shifts too many polys from one body zone to another)?  Oh wait, seems like that's already happening in this thread. 

Though maybe my initial reaction is unfair.  Maybe this is more like a bit of a red state - blue state thing where on the one side we have users who want an out-of-the-box mesh optimized for creating "realistic" female figures and on the other hand we have users who want the mesh optimized to enable certain exagerations of the female form as "art" or fantasy.  And maybe I'm just one of the relatively quiet blue staters who haven't tended to advocate so loudly for our mesh preferences.  But I must say, I do get tired of all the aggressive prosyletizing and denigration which seems to come from the "realism" camp.

Maybe this divide could be resolved by someone creating a new mesh which meets all these insistent claims about realistic proportions.  But I'll bet "Realistic Rhonda" wouldn't sell as well as a Vicky optimized for fantasy, and I'm really hoping Daz has recognized that in their design of V4.  I do know that if V4 comes out looking like some of the figures in this thread, my wallet is staying in my pocket.