Rhia, believe me, I DO feel exactly the same when trying to understand a Blender, a Z-Brush, not to mention a 3D-Max tutorial.

But I didn't learn sculpting with the morphbrush or rigging from tutorials. Can't even remember ever reading a proper magnet tutorial.

Yes, following  Dr Geep's "University" helped a lot.

https://www.renderosity.com/forums/threads/2765813/introduction-to-poser-7-by-dr-geep?page=1

But most of it was "learning by doing". And failing. A lot. And trying again.

And I'm still not happy with my results.

Poser rigging and Studio rigging have drifted apart A LOT in the last decade. Even V4/M4 weren't 100% Poser comatible anymore.

Just for fun I tried to export Genesis 8.1F as a Poser figure.

Tried several time using different settings, but still only got this:

But without a working Poser rig, it's impossible to create a figure that could wear G8.1F clothing in Poser.

Transfering G8.1F's shape to another figure is the "easy" part, but translating the rigging from DAZ to Poser will probably need some elaborate scripting. Which I'm absolutely clueless about.

I never bothered to learn scripting. It's just something I think I'm not talented for, anyway so why waste my time learning it?

See, the real problem is that Poser isn't commercially viable anymore.

The really talented clothing artists abandoned it, because it's native figures are, let's say, uninspiring.

And the majority of Poser users followed them, because they went where the pretty figures and the pretty clothes are.

So, I think your frustration is not that you didn't took the time in the past to learn all the tools Poser had to offer, but that there is no more quality support for the native Poser figures. 

If Poser had a figure that top artists would still find worthwhile to support, or if G8/G9 would still work natively in Poser, you wouldn't actually want to learn the morphbrush or rigging.

I simply can't transfer decades of experience into your brain in a reasonable amount of time.

Or have the energy left to create hour long video tutorials.

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Not to mention that I'm simply not interrested in Genesis or any newer Poser figure at all. Or their stuff.

Especially as there's still so much fun to be had with the early DAZ/Poser figures.

If someone wants to create such a figure and does have the necessary experience, but runs into a problem, I won't mind having a look and share my experience.

But I simply can't invest the time (anymore) to create a true beginners tutorial from scratch. Sorry. Really

My honest suggestion: If you really want all the nice stuff offered for Gen 8 and G9, just download DAZ Studio!

If you just want to make pretty pictures, it's really not hard to use.

Or, even better, learn Blender. (Lots of tutorials how to get Genesis into Blender)

Poser is dead. I just still use it out of mere stubbornness and because I don't want to give up 20+ years of sculpting/rigging work I did.

But if I were 20years younger, I'd ditch it in a heartbeat, download Blender and never look back.