Installation

Install Blaze AutoPose as a Blender extension using the zip for your operating system. Keep the package zipped. The pose model and runtime are included; after installation, complete Rig Setup once for each character.

Minimum Requirements

Blender	4.5 or newer
Platforms	Windows x64, Linux x64, macOS Intel and Apple Silicon
Processor	64-bit Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
Graphics	No dedicated GPU required. AutoPose solves on the CPU.

See Limitations for supported character types and posing controls.

Step 1: Install The Extension

1. Download the archive

   Download the Blaze AutoPose extension package for your operating system from your order page on Superhive Market. Keep the package zipped.

2. Open Blender Preferences

   Open Edit → Preferences in Blender.

3. Install the zip

   Either drag the zip file into Blender, or open Get Extensions, open the top-right menu, choose Install from Disk…, and select the zip file.

4. Enable Blaze AutoPose

   Confirm the extension is enabled in the list. If the panel does not appear right away, disable and re-enable the extension, or restart Blender.

Install from Disk

the Get Extensions page with Install from Disk chosen from the top-right menu.

Installing and enabling the extension

Step 2: Open The Panel

Blaze AutoPose lives in the 3D Viewport sidebar.

1. Hover the 3D Viewport and press N to open the sidebar.
2. Choose the Blaze AutoPose tab.

The panel opens on Character Rig at the top, with two modes underneath it: Rig Setup and AutoPose. Everything you do with the add-on starts by choosing a character in that first field.

The Blaze AutoPose panel

Character Rig at the top, then the Rig Setup and AutoPose mode buttons.

Reaching preferences quickly

The gear icon at the right edge of the panel header opens the AutoPose add-on preferences directly, so you do not have to go hunting through Blender’s preferences window while you work.

Step 3: Review Preferences

Open Edit → Preferences → Add-ons → Blaze AutoPose. The preferences are grouped into three sections, and none of them have to be changed before your first pose.

Section	What is in it
Support	Save Support Bundle, Open Log Folder, Quick Start, Report a Bug, Debug Logging
Viewport Controls	Handle size and opacity, the viewport dock, and the full colour palette for the handles
Shortcuts	Every AutoPose key and mouse binding, each one rebindable

Interface & Preferences walks through all of them. For now the useful ones to know about are Constraint Size and Constraint Opacity, which make the handles easier to see on a dense character, and Viewport Dock, which puts the common actions on a floating bar inside the viewport.

AutoPose preferences

the Support, Viewport Controls, and Shortcuts sections.

What To Do Next

The extension being installed is only half of it. AutoPose still has to be told which controllers on your character it is allowed to pose, and that is a separate, once-per-character pass.

Go to Rig Setup next, or follow Quick Start for the shortest route from here to a finished pose.

Updating Blaze AutoPose

You do not need to uninstall the old build first. Download the new zip, then drag it into Blender or use Install from Disk… again and select it. Restart Blender if the panel does not refresh.

Rig setup data is stored on the character armature inside your .blend file, not inside the extension, so updating the add-on does not cost you the mapping work you have already done.

After a big update

If a new build changes how the AutoPose rig is built, the panel says so with Controller mapping changed and asks you to reconstruct. That is a normal, safe operation: it rebuilds the helper rigs from the mapping you already have.