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title: "Installing Actors"
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This page provides information about the installation of actors in Chaos Anima.


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> The information in this page is about legacy Anima versions up to 5.6.


## **Installing Purchased Actors**

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## **Direct Download from Anima Library**

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## **Auto-Detection**

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## **Manual Copy**

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## **Manual Drag & Drop**

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Drag and drop the downloaded (and extracted if necessary) anima® format ***.y** files to the viewport and the actor will be automatically copied to your Purchase folder and will show up in the library.

Please note that this must be done **only with the anima® native format files (*.y)**, not folders nor zipped packages nor any other file format.