Release notes (0.1) | Animal Rigger Pro

0.1.0

The first release. Blender 5.1 or newer.

Mesh check before you mark: holes, doubled points, loose pieces, an old rig, a mirrored side, and a pose that is not standing. Most problems come with a button that fixes them.
Species list with 13 animals, each with its usual proportions. The feet, Paws or Hooves, follow the species.
The animal's facing, size and floor are read from the mesh. No need to move, scale or rotate it first.

One list of joints, with a picture of where each one is, that moves on by itself after each click.
Both sides match: mark one side and the other copies itself. Turn it off per group for a bent or scanned animal.
Knees and ankles guessed from the joints around them and the species' proportions.
Left, Right, Front and Top view buttons named for the animal's own sides.
Face marks on the skin, in two head close-ups, with the eyes found from separate eyeball objects.
Hoof marks: fetlock, heel, toe and the two edges of the sole.
Tail points: up to four marks along a tail that sags or curls. The tail's bones follow them.
Every mark checked against the species while you work, with plain words in Problems.

Legs with IK and FK, foot roll, bank, toe break, toe curl and toe spread, toes and dewclaws on paws, and a real pastern and fetlock on hooves.
Spine, neck, head and tail with stretch, stiffness, follow and curl sliders.
Face features, each optional: jaw, ears, eyes, eyelids, muzzle, lips, tongue and face details.
Twist and Joint helpers for smooth twists and firm shoulders and hips.
Parent spaces on the feet, the knees and elbows, and the ankles and wrists, which switch without moving.
Skin bound in the same step, in a few seconds on any size of mesh, with a Robust bind for difficult meshes.
Rebuild that keeps animation, painted weights, settings and anything you added. Preview changes first, and Undo last build after.

Paint set up for the rig: bone search, a jump to the other side, four brushes, one-click weights, exact weights on selected points, and Copy to other side.
Test poses that play while you paint.
Quick fixes: Smooth, From other side, Auto weights, Clean up, and Find problems.

Control sets you show and hide in one click, coloured by side.
IK / FK per leg or all legs, with no jump, from the sidebar or the right-click menu, and a keyed switch that leaves the frames before it alone.
Pose tools: select, key and reset, and an I key that keys every setting.
Snap to ground for the feet.

Unreal, Unity (Generic) and glTF, with the bent bones turned into plain ones, animation baked, and optional root motion.
Bone names for Blender, Unreal, Rigify or Mixamo.
A Godot skeleton profile with every glTF file.

Tested on macOS only. Windows and Linux are expected to work.
Four-legged animals with paws or a single hoof only. No two-legged animals, bears, split hooves, beaks or trunks.
No physics, such as fur or jiggle.