{"id":15339,"date":"2020-11-24T15:53:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=15339"},"modified":"2020-11-24T15:53:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T15:53:18","slug":"release-diffeomorphic-daz-to-blender-1-5-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2020\/11\/24\/release-diffeomorphic-daz-to-blender-1-5-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Release: Diffeomorphic DAZ-to-Blender 1.5.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was an important release that I overlooked, back in the summer. The free DAZ-Blender bridge plugin by Diffeomorphic, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201123055627\/http:\/\/diffeomorphic.blogspot.com\/p\/daz-importer-version-15.html\">Thomas Larsson<\/a>,was released as v1.5. This is in active development and at November 2020 is now at <a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/Diffeomorphic\/import_daz\/downloads\/\">version 1.5.1.<\/a> Apparently it does a good job, and is quicker and in some ways better than the free official DAZ 2.0 script. Since it doesn&#8217;t need to convert via an .FBX or Collada conversion and instead reads the DAZ files directly. Said to support polyline hair, but not strand hair. Worth a look, if you&#8217;re getting into Blender and its real-time Eevee engine.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, I recently noticed that Eevee is actually OpenGL + PBR materials. I hadn&#8217;t known that before. It explains why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=12167\">my OpenGL upgrade<\/a> fixed Blender. It just shows how far OpenGL can be pushed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update December 2020: diffeomorphic.blogspot.com totally dead. Fixed links by sending to WayBack and I&#8217;ve directly linked the repository.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an important release that I overlooked, back in the summer. The free DAZ-Blender bridge plugin by Diffeomorphic, Thomas Larsson,was released as v1.5. This is in active development and at November 2020 is now at version 1.5.1. Apparently it does a good job, and is quicker and in some ways better than the free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,5,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-utilities","category-companion-software","category-daz-studio","category-freebies","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}