Animal Rigger Pro

Install

Put Animal Rigger Pro into Blender and find its tab.

Add-on 0.1.0 · Blender 5.1 or newer

What you need

  • Blender 5.1 or newer. Version 0.1 was tested on Blender 5.2.2 LTS.
  • macOS. Windows and Linux are expected to work but are not yet tested for 0.1.
  • The add-on file, animal_rigger_pro-0.1.0.zip. Keep it zipped.

The add-on needs no internet connection and installs no other programs.

Install the add-on

Open the extension settings

In Blender, open Edit › Preferences and pick Get Extensions on the left.

Install from disk

Click the small down-arrow at the top right of that page, then Install from Disk…. Pick animal_rigger_pro-0.1.0.zip.

You can also drag the zip file onto the Blender window.

Check it is on

Open Add-ons on the left. Animal Rigger Pro is in the list with its tick on.

Find the tab

In the 3D Viewport, press N to open the sidebar. Click the Animal Rigger tab on its right edge.

The Animal Rigger sidebar tab showing the Setup step, with a Check this mesh button and a Start rigging this animal button.
The Animal Rigger tab, with a mesh selected.

The six steps are always at the top. A step you cannot use yet is greyed out: Mark opens once you start an animal, and Weights, Animate and Export open once the rig is built.

Update to a new version

Install the new zip the same way. It replaces the old one. Rigs you already built keep working.

Remove it

In Edit › Preferences › Add-ons, open Animal Rigger Pro, click its down-arrow and pick Uninstall. Rigs you built stay in your files and still work, because they are plain Blender rigs.

Next: rig your first animal.

Animal Rigger Pro

Rig a four-legged animal in Blender. You click its joints; the add-on builds the rig, binds the skin and writes it out for a game engine.

Quick start

Your first rig, from a bare mesh to posing it, in six short steps.

On this page

What you needInstall the add-onOpen the extension settingsInstall from diskCheck it is onFind the tabUpdate to a new versionRemove it