https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=4040&p=45614#p45614
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Nik
Sunday, 11 April 2021, 07:17 PM

FBX Import ??
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There seem three 'flavours' of FBX, 'classic' = okay, 'multiple sub-rigs' = exasperating and 'splat' = TOS Transporter Accident...

I thought was simply the version, FBX is now up to ~7.5 and the older the better, but I have recently met several late-version models which work perfectly. Yes, perfectly...

The only thing these well-behaved, single rig, fully-posable models seem to have in common was 'Rigged in Maya'. Which, some-how, does 'stuff' Blender, 3DOC, Noesis etc etc cannot.

Given Maya's famously eye-watering cost, I suspect Maya has licensed the authentic Autodesk FBX SDK module, while the others are reverse-engineered...

If artist's notes mention 'Rigged in Maya', the rig will probably behave well 'out of the tin'...

If 'Rigged in Blender', you could be lucky. I've met one (1) model thus, with full IK etc etc...

When I complained about FBX I/O across Rendo's forums, the Poser team 'sorta hinted' that it was being looked at.

IIRC, release news for 12.0 warned that some of the oft-belated fixes were reluctantly pushed back to 12.1, to coincide with the Apple release. Which has now appeared.

The forums do not mention any wondrous upgrade to FBX so, clearly, such did not get into 12.1.

May or may not appear in 12.2, anticipated for mid-Autumn, but that's when I'll have to upgrade my 11.3 to qualify for discount. Have begun saving my Rendo reward points to cushion the hit...