Auto rig for insects, spiders, scorpions and crabs
Auto rig now works on Hexapod and Crab creatures. It places a tip, a root and a knee on every leg, the head, and the claws on scorpions, mantises, lobsters and crabs. Until now it refused them.
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Many-legged creatures: the leg count first, a knee on every leg
On insects, spiders, scorpions and crabs the guided rig asks how many legs per side before anything else. Every leg row needs its knee, with a clear rule for which bend that is. Precise mode adds an optional ankle.
Creatures really sleep now — and can lie down first
Sleep has four styles: doze standing, lie on the belly, curl up, or sleep on the side. An optional lie-down plays first and flows straight into the sleep loop.
Auto rig: your first three creatures are free
Every account gets three free Auto rig runs, one per model. After that a run costs 1 credit, for anyone with credits — no plan needed.
Auto rig proposes twice and keeps the better rig
Each run makes two proposals and picks the one that covers your creature best, then loads it straight into the markers.
Tails come alive
Tails swing, wave and follow through by default, with a Tail group of four presets: Lively, Whippy, Heavy and Stiff.
Flyers fly: no footwork in the air
Flying creatures no longer step their feet in the air: Jump is a thrust of the wings, and Defeated drops them out of the air face-down.
Orientation: arrows, any angle, tip and tilt
FRONT and UP arrows show which way MonRig thinks your model faces; turn it by any angle, tip it nose up or down, tilt it left or right.
Guided rig: hoofed front legs, and every leg joint can be pinned
On horses, cows, deer and giraffes the Front knee marker now pins the knee. Precise mode adds optional markers for the top of each leg, the front elbow and the low bend above each foot.
Placing markers: names, arrows, G to move, both sides
Markers carry their names in the views, a selected marker gets move arrows and G moves it; lopsided creatures can have both sides placed and be straightened.
Stuck? Ask us — and tell us if the rig came out right
Ask a question from inside the editor, and rate a fit or the animations with a thumbs up or down.
For AI agents: authored clips bake, and a vertex probe
A clip an agent writes from scratch is included in the bake, and the new vertex_info tool says where a vertex is and which bones own it.
The editor saves your rig by itself
Once your creature has a skeleton, every change is saved a few seconds later, and again when you leave.
Free accounts rig three creatures
A free account can now rig three creatures instead of one, and at the limit the studio offers to rebuild one you have.
Sideways models: the editor suggests where the front is
When a four-legged model lies along the wrong axis, the orientation step marks the view it thinks is the front.
Precise is the recommended guided-rig mode
The guided-rig dialog now leads with Precise mode.
Progressive JPEG textures aren't supported
Save textures as a regular JPEG or a PNG.
Guided rig markers say which limb they mean
Clearer marker names on hoppers, stegosaurs and peacocks, and an optional tail on every hopper.
The preview keeps looping, and the Skin tab shows weights at once
Looping stays on until you switch it off; the Skin tab shows the weights as you open it and tells you when painted weights need a new bake.
Rotate parts with R
Press R in the editor to turn a selected part, like G moves and S scales it.
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