Your very welcome.
Once the HiveWire big cat is made into a house cat, I WILL be converting my own kitties maps to it... but I will NOT convert my wild cat maps to the Big Cat until CWRW has issued any and all of her maps to go with the new cat's... 1. my maps are OLD and 2. I would never want to cause any competition... she and her products come first.
(which is one reason I've stopped converting my other mil horse maps).
If you're worried about competition, you could always wait until all of Laurie's stuff is released, and then just do them afterwards. I'm with Rae on this one - I will snap up as many as I can, because I like to have a big variety of options for things, and many times in a scene, I might have multiple different animals... and not every cat looks the same, not every horse looks the same. I hardly ever touch the MilHorse2 anymore, but once or twice I have used him in the background, mixed in with a couple of Harry figures as well. Same goes for the big cats... and Ken's birds mixed in with some of Predatron's lo-rez ones.
Variety is always good. If you're worried about impacting her sales... just do it after her items have been out a while. That's what I would suggest.
But it's up to you in the end. We will scarf up anything you offer, right alongside anything Laurie offers... but it's up to you and your health, and I'm sure no one here would think any less of you for bowing out of it if you don't want to do it.
I love the items you've done in the past. You are the ONLY person to date, that has even approached the notion of an ELK enough to have one released for use. Do you have any idea how LONG I spent hunting for an elk to use for Blake's renders?! ROFL I spent over a YEAR hunting for one! And when I finally found yours, I snatched and RAN with it!
I'm actually using your elk to learn the creation side of LAMH... I want to see how he'd look with some LAMH fur on him! But I have a long way to go to being able to create LAMH presets yet.
I'm working on learning it, but it's not going to happen quickly, that's for sure. If I can get an acceptable preset made for him, though, I would totally release it as an add-on for your elk.
Either way. I'm rambling again. Sorry! We really do love your items. And they are SO useful, and very much appreciated. So thank you. ^_^