{"id":23680,"date":"2025-07-25T15:26:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=23680"},"modified":"2025-07-26T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:53:15","slug":"release-blender-4-5-final-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2025\/07\/25\/release-blender-4-5-final-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"Release: Blender 4.5 final LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/download\/\">Blender 4.5 Long-Term Support (LTS)<\/a> release is now available in its final version. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, yet <em>another<\/em> UI makeover. Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>But of special interest to Poser and DAZ users may be the new &#8220;robust&#8221; .FBX importer. However, note that the new faster importer is still &#8220;experimental&#8221;. Having moved away from using Python, it apparently doesn&#8217;t encounter many of the usual roadblocks encountered when trying to move 3D models + textures from one software to another. It can import &#8220;very old&#8221; .FBX files which may have been saved a decade or more ago, but can also handle newer OpenPBR textures. Can even handle animations. It&#8217;s many times faster. Nice. <\/p>\n<p>Note that the OBJ import-export also gets an overhaul. <\/p>\n<p>Potentially then this could open up a robust and much faster Poser\/DAZ -> .FBX -> Blender -> ComfyUI rendering pipeline.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;robust&#8221; .FBX importer. However, note that the new faster importer is still &#8220;experimental&#8221;. Having moved away from using Python, it apparently doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-freebies","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680","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=23680"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23698,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680\/revisions\/23698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}