You'll need a good modelling application, one that you like and are handy with.
(in my case that's a combo of hexagon and 3D max)
You'll need a UV mapping tool. Lot of modelling applications have UV mapping, but UV Mapper classic (a freebie) is a great tool.

Also good paint and texturing programs aer good to have for creating textures. Personally, it's a combo of Hexagon, Deep Paint, Zbrush, Photoshop and few other trexture generating utilities.

You'll need a collection of utilities to create poser-ready files. Things like rigging, editing a cr2 file, loading morphs or creating inj poses, or creating material poses.  Some are free, like a cr2edit, and Pozer's little helper. Few others, which work really slick are made by dimension3d (their poser toolbox) and PhilC's toolset.

For any one thing, like modelling, UV mapping, Texturing and rigging and creating poser-ready files, there's about a dozen different ustilities, and about two dozen opinions which one is better then the other.  I think most people learn by trial and error what works the best for them personally.

Hope that helps :)

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