Animation and rigging toolkit arrives on the Unreal Engine Marketplace. More flexibility and faster updates. At no charge.
As you may know, this is the first product on the Marketplace that isn’t actually directly tied to the engine in any way. As such, it is a bit of an experiment, and is currently listed as a code plugin. That comes with some quirks, like it requiring an engine version and having a button called “Install to Engine.”
To be clear, ARTv1 does not actually require a specific engine version, so as long as you have one of the versions installed that it “supports”, you can download the tools and use them with any engine version you wish. Regarding installing to engine, the tools will download into your engine/plugins/marketplace folder, but you can move them anywhere you like after they have been downloaded.
One of the awesome things the Marketplace gives us, especially in regards to code plugins, is the ability to easily update. Once a new build of the tools is published, you will be able to update from within the launcher.
Epic Games’ Lead Technical Animator Jeremy Ernst
You can also check out the documentation here. ART requires Windows OS and Autodesk Maya (2014 – 2017 supported).
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