Regression tests for custom grip placement, arm reach, and attachment preservation.

Smart Port mode with a dedicated source and target model picker.

Support for selecting local and cloud assets.

Project-owned copies of the source animation graph.

Built-in recovery of compiled model and animation graph files.

Regression tests for skin bindings, animation data, and compiled output.

Automatic Citizen and Human Citizen animation setup for compatible custom armatures.

Complete stock animation libraries with automatic animgraph assignment.

Optional editable animgraph copies saved alongside the output model.

Stock animation replacement using any supported animation source.

Automatic locomotion direction suggestions from clip names and clear movement.

Selectable reference frames for additive animation variants.

Automatic detection of separate FBX mesh parts.

Regression tests for mesh imports and output upgrades.

Automatic support for rigs with separate control and deform skeleton branches.

Automatic detection and animation of articulated single-joint thumbs.

Added a new runtime pose retargeting API for retargeting live humanoid poses without creating animation clips or writing files.

Added an allocation-free retargeting path designed for continuously evaluated pose streams such as mocap, procedural animation, VR, and other real-time animation systems.

Added automatic target humanoid mapping support when creating runtime retargeters.

Added a public source resolution API, allowing integrations to use the same rig detection, mapping, diagnostics, and bind-pose preparation used by normal animation conversion.

Added .cba files to the Humanoid Retargeter editor, file picker, and Asset Browser retargeting menu.

Added editor support for selecting the joint-table JSON required by EA ANT animation packages.

Added support for EA ANT joint-table JSON files stored either as a direct joint array or inside an extractor metadata object.

Added editor-facing support for EA Fight Night boxer rigs and their associated ANT animation workflow.

Any humanoid-LIKE model now works as a conversion target: pick any compiled model (.vmdl) or FBX - including rigs with paws, a single finger, or a missing hand. Whatever roles the skeleton doesn't have are simply skipped

Unrecognized target skeletons no longer dead-end with "not recognized as humanoid": the manual bone mapper opens instead, and the confirmed mapping is saved as a preset so that model is recognized instantly forever after

Custom FBX targets produce a complete playable model: the FBX is copied into your project - together with its sidecar textures folder - and embedded into the generated vmdl as its mesh + skeleton (previously the vmdl compiled into an empty model with nothing to play). Z-up FBX exports (Unreal, 3ds Max) are detected and handled - no more animations lying on their back. Skeleton-only FBX exports get a clear warning up front. Output vmdls created before this update heal themselves: the next conversion into them adds the missing mesh

An FBX with its own animation keeps it: retargeting new clips onto an animated FBX preserves the embedded takes as sequences on the output model, next to the converted ones - converted losslessly through the pipeline so they play at the correct scale whatever units the FBX was authored in

Models exported mid-pose repair themselves: FBX files saved with the skeleton left in an animation pose (common on Auto-Rig Pro and store assets - IK'd hands or a foot half a meter from the bind stance) are detected when picked as a target and their true bind pose is restored from the file's own bind data. Previously such rigs looked fine standing still but played with mangled arms, fingers and legs - the "posed" limbs

Auto-generated materials handle masked card geometry (eyelashes, hair strands get alpha testing instead of rendering as solid white sheets) and fall back to a matching detail map when a material ships no diffuse texture (a vest with only a specular map shows its strap detail instead of flat white)

Custom FBX targets get a real skinned preview: picking the FBX compiles a small preview model in the background, so the preview dialog shows your actual character instead of a placeholder

Custom FBX target skeletons are taken from the engine's own import of the file, so the animations and the compiled model can never disagree - per-exporter quirks (3ds Max Biped, Auto-Rig Pro bone scales, odd pivots) previously produced stretched or misplaced fingers and twisted wrists on some rigs

Plain-named texture sets now resolve (a material "homer" shipping "homer.png" without any _d suffix used to render untextured)

Materials are auto-generated for custom FBX targets: a .vmat is written for every FBX material that has none (textures matched from the sidecar folder by name - diffuse and normal maps) and the model's material references are remapped to them, so the model compiles textured instead of showing "Missing vmat" placeholders. The generated files are yours to adjust and are never overwritten

Wireframe skeleton view in the preview: a "Skeleton" button switches between the skinned model and a stick-figure view of the retargeted animation (and back). Targets without a compiled preview model automatically show the skeleton view instead of an empty viewport

2 new rig presets: s&box citizen/human naming (models re-rigged on the citizen skeleton are now auto-recognized) and AdvancedSkeleton (the Maya auto-rigger behind many game rips - Root_M/Scapula/Wrist/Ankle naming; one real model previously auto-mapped its arms and legs onto its head quills and played garbage) (19 presets total)

Texture matching covers every common suffix convention (diff/albedo/basecolor/col/clr and friends for diffuse; nrm/nm/norm/bump for normals) and now also wires roughness, metalness and ambient-occlusion maps into the generated materials when the set ships them

Single-set texture packs resolve: when everything is named "<character>_*" ("sonic_mat" + "sonic_diff.png"), the base name alone now decides an unambiguous match - previously the body rendered untextured while only distinctively-named parts (eyes) got their maps. Ambiguous base-name ties are still rejected, so multi-part sets can never grab each other's textures

Composite-shader texture layers pick the right stand-in by looking at the pixels: materials that ship several same-named layers for a custom shader (an eye as gray ball + white sclera mask + catchlight dot) get the layer with the brightest center as their color map - the pupil-hole layer used to render eyes solid black

An FBX with no materials at all (bare Blender export) compiles clean: the engine derives a material slot from the geometry name and used to fail with Missing vmat "cube.vmat" - a stub material is now generated for every geometry slot

RenderWare animation support: drop in .anm clips or .an5 animation banks - banks unpack into individual takes like FBX bundles

RenderWare skeletons load from the model .dff next to your animation (auto-detected, with a "Pick skeleton..." fallback on the file row)

4 new rig presets: Source engine ValveBiped, Xsens MVN, Perception Neuron, and DAZ Genesis 3/8 (17 presets total)

A preset coverage gate: every preset must map everything its rig family can animate (all finger phalanges, toes, clavicles, full spine) - incomplete presets can no longer ship