As Shane said : Your last anwer is again completely unrelated to DAWN.

As for a developpers guide?

I have Blender, Poser, ten fingers and a brain; Nothing more is required.

Unlike you I have PP2014, so I do have some extra tools available.
But? ? All can be done in Poser 7,8,9,10 also.
Most high quality content creators are still on Poser7 because they want their products to be backwards compatible.

Like most, I also started with nothing and a gazillion questions.
But I started.

What figure we build for?
Who cares?
That is every individuals choice and completey unrelated to DAWN or any other figure around.

I like dark hair, others like blond hair. Some like thin breasts, others like large breasts.
That what makes us all different.

The main issue is? Start building, and stop ranting and bashing, it serves NO purpose at all.

Again, as Shane said:

Blender (I take Blender as an example as it is free) has a TON of tutorials and even complete tutorial series on youtube.

SM has cataloged, written, and video tutorials, on their own site and on youtube.

All one has to do is have some good will, sit down, read and look. (And nip on your tea or coffee)

Every negative minute of your complaining is "lost time".

Clothes? Want a tutorial on clothes?
I found 15 completely different ways to make clothes.

I even build dynamic clothes inside Poser without ever leaving Poser.
But? That requires "thinking outside of the box."

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=3903852&ebot_calc_page#message_3903852

Check the above, for a brainfart of mine in 2012. LOL.

Poser 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, P8 and PPro2010, P9 and PP2012, P10 and PP2014 Game Dev
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