Rhia474 posted at 6:24 PM Sat, 17 May 2025 - #4496250

"The problem is, to do this, you need a REALLY good knowledge of the morphbrush and about rigging and grouping, so while the principle is easy, the actual conversion is quite involved."

 The average user does not know how to use the grouping tool because again, guess what: no modern tutorials for it that were not written in the Poser 6 days and which are largely unavailable because they were on dead sites, anyway. Or what welding is. Or what 'rigging probably needs editing' means. This is what I have been screaming about for literally years.

So thank you for at least being honest about what you think I will never be able to do. That made things really clear.

https://www.renderosity.com/premium-tutorials/167/poser-pro-11-tutorial-create-and-customize

This tutorial covers the morph brush, at least the basics. Skip to around the 12 min mark as the first part deals with the face room which no longer exists. It was done in P11 but still applies to 12 and 13 as there haven't been many changes to the morph brush since then. He also covers a bit of magnets and the hair room later in the video. Magnets are good for fitting hair models to different head shapes, that's pretty much all I ever use them for. They can fit clothing too and morph targets can be spawned from them but the morph brush is better for that on clothing because it's easier to control.

Nerd3D did several tutorials for customizing la femme back when she came out, which also covers some tools like the morph brush and editing jcms. They're on page 3 of the Poser tutorial series. Of course there's room for a lot more tutorials covering various tools and techniques. There are several features that have been added to 12 and 13 which makes content creation/customization a bit easier, that no one has ever done any explaining or tutorials for that I'm aware of. I haven't seen anyone delve into actual rigging in any of these either so that's been something I've had to learn on my own through trial and error over the years. There were several youtube tutorials done by Smith-Micro back around P9/2012 with the introduction of weight maps but they were lost in the transition to bondware.