I'm not sure if your answers will specifically be found here but I found these two links extremely helpful when I was starting. 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_zPV2o3aPwY0VFz5FZmEGg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC38T95wHAxyCrOO6b1tD7Nw
Victoria 4 is not as poseable as the current models.  You probably should know that up front.  I could probably walk you through some of your questions but need more information.
1. By modify, what do you mean?  Most of the time I load victoria 4.2 through my smart content tab, located on the left hand of the screen. But most of my victoria 4 content, skins, clothing, etc are under the content library tab.  If you can't find your content library tab go to windows>panes> content library to make sure it is open on your page.  If you have the original set up then it should be on the right hand side of the screen and located below scenes and parameters tabs.  It's organized really weird if you are in the poser format though, I must warn you.  Clothing seems to be sorted into both poses and under clothing for individual figures.  Figures are under figures.  Props seem to be everywhere.  The hardest part to get used to is that items do not always load with their materials on.  So if you have some hand made things made by people and given away free or items purchased from other companies than daz, like I do, then you may end up having to go to materials to put the textures on the items.  If I had it to do over I would stick to only working with daz made items until I got used to everything as this made me cray cray when I first started. 
2. As far as I know you need the victoria 4.2 model and the morphs.  The dim will install them automatically when you download them.  Then when you click on victoria 4.2 a window opens giving you the option of which morphs you want applied.  I currently have at least five optional morphs to choose from.  This starter set gives you both the morphs and the 4.2 model.  http://www.daz3d.com/victoria-4-2-complete
3. I mostly answered this in the first paragraph.  Make sure you select Victora model in the scene tab and then usually you just double click the clothing item, and if in the poser file section then you must manually apply the 'material' file.  Sometimes you can pick different materials in both the daz section and poser section.  One clothing piece of info that I wish I had known is that you can take an older piece of clothing and sometimes force it to fit a newer model, but putting a newer piece of clothing on an older model  is very difficult.  So I would buy the newer model and the older clothing if you are trying to pinch pennies.   The trick is to load it onto the model it was made for... example put a v4 outfit on a v4 model.  Then unparent that item from the model by right clicking on the item in the scene panel, and fit it to genesis.  Once it is fitting nice, then do that again.  Unparent it from the genesis and fit it to genesis 2.  It's a bit tedious but can save money while learning the program.
Good luck and welcome to my daz addiction.  I'm pretty sure I need a seven step program at this point.
 

Gopherus #7

 Dream Home Master Bedroom  
 Golf Clubs  
 La Calesita  
 The Wraith  
 Moroccan Dreams V4  (LB)

A 'Raith a'Round, A Round, a'Round

I know you want to play on the carousel your father bought for you, but you have to wait for him to finish his round of Car Polo.  You must understand that men must have their games.  Just be patient!

Aw yeah secret orange banner has transititoned to Arabella for those that are meant to be qualified to get it and aren't seeing it.

Already have her - Josie got skipped gives a vaaaague hope of some more useful offers during the sale though.

And yet another one I own; some of the more recent ones, I'd be interested in; has the pro bundle been on offer for any of these? Anyone know?

For both Eva and Bethany, the figure, starter bundle and pro bundle showed up in the "Friends of..." category for a short time. I already have Arabella, (I like her, except her eyebrows are placed too high... no longer an issue thanks to Zev0,) but I checked for the bundles anyway. That was at around 1am Daz time, and none of the bundles were in the category. I suspect the reason people were getting the figures for a lot less than $5 had to do with it being in the "Friends of ..." category, too,. DAZ corrected that, apparently, with Arabella.

I have a sneaky suspicion the $5 offer is being made on figures that didn't sell as well as they'd hoped. If I'm right, I'm hoping Izzabella didn't sell all that well... and I'm hoping beyond hope that the Pro bundle will make it into the "Friends of ..." category. I want that bundle, but funds are a bit tapped out after buying a new computer!

Thank you.

Arabella is my favourite skin of the 7 series characters.

Although I mess with them all. I own about a dozen, and use Josie the least.

Aw yeah secret orange banner has transititoned to Arabella for those that are meant to be qualified to get it and aren't seeing it.

Already have her - Josie got skipped gives a vaaaague hope of some more useful offers during the sale though.

And yet another one I own; some of the more recent ones, I'd be interested in; has the pro bundle been on offer for any of these? Anyone know?

For both Eva and Bethany, the figure, starter bundle and pro bundle showed up in the "Friends of..." category for a short time. I already have Arabella, (I like her, except her eyebrows are placed too high... no longer an issue thanks to Zev0,) but I checked for the bundles anyway. That was at around 1am Daz time, and none of the bundles were in the category. I suspect the reason people were getting the figures for a lot less than $5 had to do with it being in the "Friends of ..." category, too,. DAZ corrected that, apparently, with Arabella.

I have a sneaky suspicion the $5 offer is being made on figures that didn't sell as well as they'd hoped. If I'm right, I'm hoping Izzabella didn't sell all that well... and I'm hoping beyond hope that the Pro bundle will make it into the "Friends of ..." category. I want that bundle, but funds are a bit tapped out after buying a new computer!

If that's the case, I'm definitely surprised that Arabella didn't sell well. It's one of my favorite figures next to Olympia.

Agreed, and I too like Olympia second, and maybe equally so. Victoria and Josie I use least.

The walk through for the initial adjustment of a store bought material preset designed for Studio is complete in my 'First Steps' thread.  I want to make a couple of comments here, because there are just one or two slightly different issues when someone sets up a character in Studio, saves as DUF, then loads in Carrara.  Ultimately, the endgame is the same in the sense that you want the right color/specular/bump/normal maps to be in the right place, and you want to take advantage of Carrara's subsurface scattering channel (or not) and you want your other settings optimized for Carrara.  But one thing to keep an eye on is whether the Daz figure has distinct uvmapping sets for different characters.  For example, the G2Fs uvmaps for The Girl 6 may be completely different from the G2Fs uvmaps for Victoria 6.  So, a color map for The Girl 6 might map incorrectly if the figure has been set up to use Victoria 6s uvs. You can mix and match the maps as long as they reference the same uvs.  If I buy a character pack for G2F, I always check to see if the seller has listed the uvs that are matched in the product description before I buy. 

Being aware of how to load and customize maps can open opportunities for other Daz PA products.  For example, I acquired Forbidden Whispers G2F merchant resource skin shader pack.

BorisBadenov

Here is a demonstration of creating a new shading domain on Victoria 6 and making it invisible in the region of the poke-through.  This can be convenient if a figure is wearing long pants, etc.

Similar to the harness example, select the"actor" level of the V6 Genesis 2 Female figure.  Click the wrench icon to enter the modeling room.  Use the selection tools to select the vertexes that would be covered by long pants and boots.  Use the menu on the right to create a new shading domain.  I named it something that I would remember to make invisible in the alpha channel.

Next, with the actor level still selected, click the paintbrush icon to enter the texture room.  Open the shader for your new shader domain.  Set the alpha channel to black or zero.  That will make those vertexes invisible.

In the attached screenshots, there had been some poke through on the right calf.  I used this method to create a new shading domain for the G2F legs.  A test render shows that the poke through is fixed.

Now, I can start a fresh empty scene.

Load a new Valerie figure from the content browser.

Highlight the actor level.

Click and drag my saved shader from the shader browser to the multicolored globe at the top of the shader tab.

The optimized shaders for all of the shading domains are applied with one click.

Still with the actor level selected, I can go to the parameters tab, search for "valerie" and then zero out the morphs to return to thebase G2F shape.

I can then dial any shape morphs, such as Victoria 6, and adjust the G2F.

Here is G2F with the Valerie character skin maps and the Victoria 6 morphs.

 Let's say for example you forget that you purchased the Victoria 7 pro bundle and you're like, hey, this starter bundle is on sale and it doesn't say purchased by it (even though you have all of the items in that bundle) so then you purchase that and wasted money on stuff that you already had.

You haven't wasted any money...if you file a ticket with Customer Service explaining that you already had purchased the Pro bundle and don't need the Starter one...you will receive a full refund.

I wouldn't really consider this a product suggestion, but rather a store suggestion. What I would like to see Daz do as far as their store goes, is to have some sort of way to mark items that you have as purchased even if you didn't actually purchase it. Here's an example to show what I mean. So, let's say you purchase the Victoria 7 Pro bundle 6 months ago, and now today there is a sale for starter bundles. (Might be a little drastic example but it's in order to show the point). Let's say for example you forget that you purchased the Victoria 7 pro bundle and you're like, hey, this starter bundle is on sale and it doesn't say purchased by it (even though you have all of the items in that bundle) so then you purchase that and wasted money on stuff that you already had. Another suggestion I would like to see is for the store to somehow give you an extra discount (like what they have in iTunes with the complete my album option) where the price is reduced on a bundle where you already have some of the items. This one is probably more of an issue for me because I have purchased several bases (for example, the Girl 7 and Belle 6) and would now like to purchase the Pro bundle, but I don't get an extra discount for owning some of the items in the bundle so I feel like I am spending extra money that I shouldn't be spending.

I decided to start a new thread for older generation figures, as the idea comes up now and then ...

If you are interested in getting these figures (apart from Victoria 2 and Michael 2 - those are vaulted by Daz): Knittingmommy has accumulated links to the store pages: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1501496/#Comment_1501496 and there is GiGi_7's thread here: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/925540/#Comment_925540

Freebies for V2/M2: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/22725/links-victoria2-michael2-v2-m2-freebie-list/p1

 

Adventuress

Victoria 3 (in letters THREE - yes, really ...), rendered in DazStudio 3Delight.
I wouldn't call her old if I were you, she has a big sword and knows how to use it!

Credits:
Victoria 3 - Daz
Daniela - IllusionsDesigns
Subsurface Skin Shader - Tofusan (a bit modified)
Veronica Year Three - Uzilite
PD Dirty Pretty - Parrotdolphin
Adventure Hair - 3Dream
UberHair Shader Upgrade for UberSurface - Omnifreaker
The Ruins of Angkor Wat - Merlin Studios
Nature Shaders - JGreenlees (Water and Grass, a bit modified)
Songbird ReMix Jacanas - Ken Gilliland
Songbird ReMix Pet Shop - Ken Gilliland

Yeah, never commented on this one...but, she's wearing too much clothing to know 'really how to use' that sword...

Ok here is what I have been doing lately :), Btw I have posted in the entry thread first accidentally, sorry about that.

 

Deeper Underground

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My contest entry. It is just try to make a nice Halloween render. I wish I watched this video before I started it, but still I think it turned relatively nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twog7XFOXnM

*******

Done with Daz Studio 4.9

Items marked with an asterisk require registration.

Not Counting: G2f, G1

Freebies:

1.)* Goblinette

2.) Troll Droll Hair

3.) Troll Droll Hair Fit

4.) Troll Droll Hair Mats

5.)* Prehistoric Princess for G2f

6.)* Summoner's Sacrifice Place

7.)* DA Jack O Lantern

8.)* The Morphing Pumpkins

9.) Bone Marker

10.) Bone Mirror

11.) Bone Thing

12.) Bone Pile

13.)* Render Profiles for DAZ Studio 4.5 (Rendered on Insane)

Paid: Raw Oagre, DragonLord for Genesis

 

All links verified

ENTRY ACCEPTED

You can correct your entry in the Entries Thread. 

Hello, 

 

Carrara works considerably well on Linux if you decide to not use Genesis figures, as well as you become patient on rendering previews in shader room, this may be system and drivers dependent, but my experience is that cancelling rendering process usually cause a failure of Carrara under wine. 

The main obstacle you may encounter is Rendering, you have to uncheck Texture Spooling in Carrara's preferences for rendering engine to work. Everything else should work pretty well, except dynamic cloth plug-in by Sparrowhawke, last time I tried it it usually hangs on calculating dynamics. Last time I checked, smart content managing system introduced in Carrara 8.5 doesn;t work at all and causes Carrara to get  a fatal error. So if you want to use figures like Victoria or Michael etc. the latest that work are generation 4 figures. But I experimented with this like 6 months ago, things might have changed or not.
Sometimes development versions of Wine introduce some changes that may result in unhappy vertex.cmx file, but last time I encountered this issue was very long time ago. But stable branches usually work very well. Spooling texture on disc tick unmarked, patience with preview windows rendering and you are mostly good to go. 

Sweet! I actually wish there was a tick in Preferences that allowed us to disable the preview render in the Texture room. I don't really need that anyways - just plug in my maps, values and other things... and do a complete test render.

Col to hear that it works though - even with a few small caveats! Thanks JetBird!!!

Yes, I think that is it. Here is the link 

http://www.daz3d.com/fwsa-ginnifer-hd-for-victoria-7-and-her-jewelry

Ok here is what I have been doing lately :), Btw I have posted in the entry thread first accidentally, sorry about that.

Deeper Underground

*******

My contest entry. It is just try to make a nice Halloween render. I wish I watched this video before I started it, but still I think it turned relatively nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twog7XFOXnM

*******

Done with Daz Studio 4.9

Items marked with an asterisk require registration.

Not Counting: G2f, G1

Freebies:

1.)* Goblinette

2.) Troll Droll Hair

3.) Troll Droll Hair Fit

4.) Troll Droll Hair Mats

5.)* Prehistoric Princess for G2f

6.)* Summoner's Sacrifice Place

7.)* DA Jack O Lantern

8.)* The Morphing Pumpkins

9.) Bone Marker

10.) Bone Mirror

11.) Bone Thing

12.) Bone Pile

13.)* Render Profiles for DAZ Studio 4.5 (Rendered on Insane)

Paid: Raw Oagre, DragonLord for Genesis

Deeper Underground

*******

My contest entry. It is just try to make a nice Halloween render. I wish I watched this video before I started it, but still I think it turned relatively nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twog7XFOXnM

*******

Done with Daz Studio 4.9

Items marked with an asterisk require registration.

Not Counting: G2f, G1

Freebies:

1.)* Goblinette

2.) Troll Droll Hair

3.) Troll Droll Hair Fit

4.) Troll Droll Hair Mats

5.)* Prehistoric Princess for G2f

6.)* Summoner's Sacrifice Place

7.)* DA Jack O Lantern

8.)* The Morphing Pumpkins

9.) Bone Marker

10.) Bone Mirror

11.) Bone Thing

12.) Bone Pile

13.)* Render Profiles for DAZ Studio 4.5 (Rendered on Insane)

Paid: Raw Oagre, DragonLord for Genesis

Hmmmm...  http://www.daz3d.com/wanda-hair  looks good...  http://www.daz3d.com/choko-hair-for-genesis-2-female-s  is close, just not really straight across....  http://www.daz3d.com/angie-hair-for-genesis-2-female-s-and-victoria-4  maybe....  http://www.daz3d.com/janna-hair-for-genesis-2-female-s-and-victoria-4  sort of...  Hah!  Even  http://www.daz3d.com/fiends-forever-long-fringe-hair  could work.  Spring hair, Renesmel, Cinnia.... wow, lots of options!

Das Pro-Bundle, z.B. Lilith 7, kostet $134.95. Also, 1619,40$. Ziemlich stolzer Preis.

Öhhh... wie kommst Du auf diese Summe?!? In TEURO wären das derzeit ca. € 122,95.

Was man m.A.n. auch noch berücksichtigen müsste, wäre da noch der Preisvorteil eines Bundles gegenüber der Gesamtsumme für einen Kauf der Einzelprodukte. Am Beispiel Victoria 7: das Pro Bundle kostet $ 134,95. Würde man jeden Artikel des Bundles separat erwerben, käme man auf satte $ 253,40. Der Preisvorteil für das Bundle beträgt hier schon stolze $ 118,45. 

Rein rechnerisch gesehen würde man also nur die ersten fünf Artikel (Victoria 7, Capsces Fun and Flirty Victoria 7, Krayon Hair for Genesis 3 Female(s), Leyton Hair for Genesis 3 Female(s) and Genesis 2 Female(s), Casual Summer for Genesis 3 Female(s)) voll bezahlen (Gesamtsumme der Einzelartikel: $ 120,75), auf den sechsten (Vigilante Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s)) erhält man einen Rabatt von $ 5,75,-, und die verbleibenden Posten (Austrani Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s), i13 Sexy Model Poses for Victoria 7, Feel It! Mix and Match Expressions for Victoria 7, Post Apocalyptic Outfit for Genesis 3 Female(s), FWSA Adaline HD for Victoria 7, Summer for Victoria 7) erhält man quasi gratis obendrauf. Das Ganze kann man mit den Produkten natürlich noch variieren, für welche man den vollen Preis löhnt, und welche man obendrauf für lau bekommt. Und als Schmankerl gibt's dann halt noch die "Anatomical Elements", wie sie sich jetzt offiziell schimpfen, auch noch mit dazu. Bezieht man jetzt noch den "Frühbucher-Rabatt" und die diversen PC+ Ermäßigungen und Gutscheine mit in die Berechnung mit ein, wird's natürlich noch günsticher. 

Abgesehen von dem Post Apocalyptic und Austrani Outfit und vielleicht den Posen, die für mich nichts wirklich überlebensnotwendiges darstellen, sind hier die Sachen eigentlich ganz nützlich.

Aw yeah secret orange banner has transititoned to Arabella for those that are meant to be qualified to get it and aren't seeing it.

Already have her - Josie got skipped gives a vaaaague hope of some more useful offers during the sale though.

Just wondered how you know that Josie got skipped. I prefer her to Arabella. Is there a way to find out the order in which the G3 characters were released?

Upcoming (confirmed but unsure when)

Lucian 7
Monique 7
Darius 7
Mika 7

Released:

Lilith 7: Thu 6th Oct (server problems Tue-Wed)

Sunny 7: Tue 13th Sep

Tween Ryan 7: Tue 23rd Aug
Tween Julie 7: Tue 9th Aug

Kenji 7: Tue 19th July
Aiko 7: Tue 5th July 

Ivan 7: 21st June
Rune 7: Tue 7th June (1 day notice)

Kimo 7: Tue 24th May
Kalea 7: Tue 10th May (Kimo 7 announce)

Lee 7: Tue 19th Apr
Mei Lin 7: Thu 7th Apr (Lee 7 announce)

Izabella 7: Wed 24th Mar (delay issue on Tue)

Guy 7: Tue 23rd Feb
Girl 7: Tue 16th Feb

Gianni 7: Tue 26th Jan
Gia 7: Tue 19th Jan

2015

Leo 7: Tue 22nd Dec
Olympia 7: Tue 15th Dec

Michael 7: Tue 17th Nov
Arabella 7: Tue 20th Oct
Teen Josie 7: Tue 15th Sep
Karen 7: Wed 19th Aug *
Bethany 7: Tue 4th Aug *
Eva 7: Tue 21st Jul
Victoria 7: Tue 23rd Jun 

My shortest "adult" character is my namesake at 4'11" with a gymnast's physique. She is still G2F based (Mei Lin 6) until I can get the Face Morph resource kits that are on my wishlist and Skin Builder Pro 3 comes out (she's an albino).

 

I have an albino character I made using Brooklyn HD skin texture and a blond shader for the eyelashes. So, when you switch to G3F, you may want to try her out. And this will give you a close approximation of Mei Lin 6 on G3F.

Updated October 19, 2016

I may have unintentionally translated on the hip.... I'm trying to translate the entire figure, such as Victoria 7, for example. I click on "Victoria 7" and work with what I get there without selecting hip. Maybe they're one and the same, I'm not sure. Is there any other way to have the figures rotate on their axis without using "Translate"?