The Blender 4.5 Long-Term Support (LTS) release is now available in its final version.
Yes, yet another UI makeover. Ugh.
But of special interest to Poser and DAZ users may be the new “robust” .FBX importer. However, note that the new faster importer is still “experimental”. Having moved away from using Python, it apparently doesn’t encounter many of the usual roadblocks encountered when trying to move 3D models + textures from one software to another. It can import “very old” .FBX files which may have been saved a decade or more ago, but can also handle newer OpenPBR textures. Can even handle animations. It’s many times faster. Nice.
Note that the OBJ import-export also gets an overhaul.
Potentially then this could open up a robust and much faster Poser/DAZ -> .FBX -> Blender -> ComfyUI rendering pipeline.
Update: I now find that ComfyUI has native import of .OBJ and .FBX and nodes that can visualise them rotating in 3D space. There is a question-mark over size and robustness, though, for me. Seeing a demo of a simple lightweight mesh of a garden gnome is one thing, but I suspect that displaying and manipulating a La Femme .FBX export is quite another.
Update: Yes, I tested the 3D node in Comfy. It imports fine, but the basic window is obviously not meant for anything big and complex. Thus Blender + Comfy running as an in-UI plugin seems worth exploring. Ideally we could do this with Poser, but the Comfy integration would likely have to be done via a script calling a set of real-time renders, rather than an in-UI window.
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