New FBX importer: Feedback and discussion

[dfelinto]

Hi @aras_p, I wanted to bring you this scenario for you to consider as well:

Rigging orientation mismatch between Blender and other DCCs

Introduction During GDC 2025 I was inquirying around about the struggle some studios may have with Blender. I was chasing a burning question I had from previous years: Why do some studios model all the assets with Blender, but when it comes to animation they switch to a different software? At this year’s Blender Meetup I repeated that question and got some clues from blender user Corey Kinard. At his studio they have no problems creating and animating characters from within Blender (and using t…

We talked about this, but it now includes the sample file and even the workaround add-on that was created to mitigate this problem.

It is more of a discussion to have with the animation & rigging module. But I think it was relevant to this thread as well.