Not saying you should go that route but it might help you to understand how it's done.  I'm not much of a coder.  I can do some basic python scripts when I need them and can hack most Poser files to fix or get what I need but that's the extent of my abilities.

I just pointed out Particles 3 because I knew it was available and while it wasn't the prefect soution, both Particles 3 and Metaform (another plugin from the old Poser days) are greatly missed.

If you can come up with a decent particle system, I know I would buy it in a minute.