What is the best or easiest way to use FF render maps on 3D Software?

I am still new and learning 3D software and I own
Poser 2012
Bryce 7 Pro
Daz Studio 4
Carrara 7 Pro.

I have seen many of you using the textures and render maps in other 3D softwares and I want to ask if there is any tutorials about this topic.

I have used the excellent
Spherical 3D Displacement Previewer by ThreeDee V 2.0 and have made the examples shown in this thread

Now I would like to make the same 3D spheres in a true and real 3D software and use the same render maps in the 3D software.

Please, is there any tutorials on how to use the textures and render maps from FF in a 3D software?

I have already tried to use the render maps I have made from FF in Poser and DAZ Studio and the only one that works badly is the diffuse map

I have only found until now this request for a 3D tutorial that is this wiki addition request: 3D tutorial

Which software is the best (not one that is too complex) for using the render maps from FF ?

Which one do you use ?

Thanks very much for your help and sorry for this basics questions as I know that you are very much experienced with this.

Personally I find Bryce the easiest of those four, maybe because I've used it the most.

Youtube video of somebody doing Normal maps in Carrara http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xocEZSTRE

I don't know how useful that is to you

Thanks very much for all your comments that are useful and helpful and will see what I can do.

I have been reading the manual of Poser and it puts that the bump maps that need to modify the geometry of the object needs to be done with a displacement map.

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Skybase wrote: In filter forge export the DIFFUSE, BUMP and or NORMAL maps. Find the inputs for each of those (sometimes diffuse is called color map and bump maybe displacement) and input!

Yes I have seen that depending of the software the name of the input can be different or the same name can have a different meaning.