Known Issues

Icons are very small on 4k monitors
UPDATE: interface scaling is now supported, starting at 1.4.12 and 1.0.16. This affects Windows users only. While there is not a permanent fix, the work...
Mon, 15 Feb, 2021 at 10:31 AM
Trial says it expired, but I never used animBot before
This can happen when another user previously installed animBot in that computer and activated a trial. That's a common scenario for a school computer, f...
Mon, 21 Jun, 2021 at 2:30 PM
Anim Recovery and Standalone Maya Sessions
There are 2 process that Anim Recovery runs through Maya Standalone sessions. Please read this article to understand about Standalone Sessions and how to fi...
Thu, 15 Apr, 2021 at 2:43 PM
I have to activate my license very often
The issue It's considered normal if animBot asks for a license validation/activation within one week apart or more. A few users reported that animBo...
Fri, 20 Nov, 2020 at 8:27 AM
Xform limitations
Some rig controllers look like NURBs curves but they are actually a joint node. Joint nodes have some extra rotation/orientation attributes that, if not at ...
Thu, 23 Apr, 2020 at 11:36 AM
Workarounds for loading Anim Recovery checkpoints
There is a few loading routes you can try Opening the latest crashed file After a Maya crash and a relaunch, before opening any file, if you load anim...
Fri, 20 Mar, 2020 at 5:51 AM
Animbot fails to load when maya-scripts directory contains non-ASCII characters
A workaround is to change the maya-scripts location by setting the environment variable MAYA_APP_DIR to any custom location. On Windows, please follow these...
Mon, 11 May, 2020 at 2:33 PM
animBot is not installed in the default location - error
This is an issue currently happening with Windows users on 1.0.15.  It seems to be caused by a malware script that is created at  .../scripts/vaccine.py  (m...
Tue, 23 Mar, 2021 at 4:36 AM
I have to install animBot at every Maya launch
There's 3 ways to launch animBot, either through a button on the shelf, a command or you can set it up to launch automatically when Maya launches. Let&#...
Mon, 28 Aug, 2023 at 10:42 AM
Maya Standalone Sessions
What is it? A standalone session is a Maya session like any other, with the exception that it doesn't load any UI, so it runs in the background and ...
Wed, 5 May, 2021 at 3:26 PM