Installation

#What you need

• Blender 5.0 or newer
• A free account at animatica.ai (for Animatica Cloud)
• Allow Online Access turned on in Blender (see below)

#Install the addon

1. Download the latest animatica-blender-….zip from your account's Downloads or from GitHub Releases
2. Open Blender → Edit → Preferences → Add-ons
3. Click Install… and choose the zip file
4. Search for Animatica and enable Animatica Choreographer

The Animatica tab appears in the N panel of the 3D View once the addon is on.

#Allow Online Access

Blender has one switch for whether add-ons may use the network: Edit → Preferences → System → Allow Online Access. Animatica respects it. It must be on for:

• Animatica Cloud: listing models, generating, signing in
• update checks and updates
• example scenes and the ready-made character (the first time; they are cached after that)

With it off, the only thing that works is a self-hosted server on this machine (localhost). The panel says Online access is disabled in Preferences > System and offers Open Preferences to take you there.

#Updating

The addon keeps itself current. The version you are running is at the top of its preferences, with a button to check now.

• It checks by itself. At most once a day it asks GitHub whether a newer release is out. If there is one, the Animatica panel and the preferences say so. Untick Check for updates to stop it.
• It installs only when you ask. Press Update. A dialog shows the version and its size, and your scene is untouched: only the addon is replaced. Restart Blender afterwards to finish.
• Releases only, unless you ask for previews. Tick Include previews to be offered pre-release builds too. It is on by default only if you installed a preview build.
• A bad download is refused. Anything that is not a complete, working build is rejected before your installed version is touched. If the new version will not load, the old one is put back and enabled again.
• It won't cut a generation short. It will not start while a generation is running, and if one starts during the download it waits for it to finish.
• It will not update a development checkout. If the addon is linked in from a source folder (for example with make install), it says so. Update that with git instead.

You can always install a zip by hand as above, too.