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Not a book, practice.

I kinda get what you're saying, but I don't completely agree with it. I started as most of us (okay, some of us) do, reading the manual and trying to pose and render figures, but soon found the manual sadly lacking in key instructions, specifically material room stuff. I mean, it would say something like: "you can do {whatever-it-was} in {whatever-circumstances}" but it didn't say how. I'm like a lot of people in that I kinda need a bit of hand-holding to get a grip with how stuff works. Like nodes, for instance. The manual falls down massively in this regard. If it weren't for Bill's generosity with his time and detailed explanations, I would still be floundering.

Too many developers use the "just practice" approach to hooking up nodes to make shaders. They don't actually know what they are doing: they're just after an effect. Whether or not the shader actually has any basis in reality is immaterial to them... once they've sort-of achieved the look they're after, they're happy. And bogus shaders result.

I don't pretend to understand shaders all that well myself: but I can appreciate the difference between a good shader and one that's just kinda cobbled together through hooking node a to node b and looking at a render and going "yep, that'll do".
Whilst there are excellent Poser manuals out there for most of what Poser can do, how to approach the material room would still be very much black magic except for Bagginsbill's mathematical/physics/scientific explanations and examples. If he ever writes The Book, I'll be the first one in the queue with my fist-full of hard-earned shekels. To my knowledge, though, there is nothing out there to approximate what that book would have to offer except what you'll find on this forum and on RDNA.

More's the pity.

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