--- title: "7.1.0" canonical: "https://documentation.chaos.com/space/ANIMA/1437434016/7.1.0" format: markdown --- *Official Release* **Date** - November 04, 2026 ## **New Features** --- ### **Core & engine** - **MCP:** Open MCP support ### **User interface & experience** - Render wireframe option for backgrounds, available from the visualization icon - MCP interface for connecting your preferred LLM - Ability to draw paths with different radii - Dummy previews for models and cars - Proxy and convex hull visualization ## **Improvements** --- ### **Integrations** - Added support for Cinema 4D 2027 ### **Core & engine** - Fine-tuned values in the Recast & Detour library - Improved memory allocation and eliminated memory leaks - Moved the prune option out of the Recast & Detour library so it can be edited directly in Anima Designer - Parallelized the recast calculation to improve performance in huge city environments - Restricted automatic path display during play simulation ### **Installer & setup** - Removed the outdated license.cgmd/html files and updated the installer to show the current EULA - Updated the bundled installer engine to the latest version ### **User interface & experience** - Enabled the Backspace key to remove the latest point when creating waypoints, placing chairs, and drawing automatic route paths - Flagged invalid or non-downloaded models clearly in the scene tree - Included explanatory tooltips for the "+" import buttons in the library and in Edit Mode - Kept the current project open when the open project dialog is closed - Prevented the background dialog from appearing when the scale isn't set in the initial dialog - Refined the Scene Dialog with general improvements - Removed the import option from the Vehicle section in Edit Mode - Updated the accordion widget so all sections can be collapsed at the same time ## **Fixes** --- ### **Security** - Fixes for identified vulnerabilities ### **Core & engine** - A crash occurred after exporting a project containing navigation capsules - A crash occurred when loading an Anima Drop project inside Anima Designer - A crash occurred when opening a scene on a Drop project directly from Anima Designer - Deleting a background containing actors caused a skeleton-related crash - Live View didn't work when editing Motion clip poses - The automatic route path didn't update after a point was removed with Backspace until the mouse was moved - Undo/Redo behaved incorrectly after exporting a pose model ### **Installer & setup** - An OAuth Authentication Error occurred when using Anima with a Chaos Cloud license - Changing the Purchase Folder didn't trigger a library indexing update ### **Plug-ins & integrations** - Anima Alive failed to clear the background when syncing an empty list - Anima Live had issues when receiving an empty background update from host applications (Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, etc.) - In Cinema 4D, background export allowed duplicate objects to be sent to Anima - In Cinema 4D, Link Points broke when the scene was reloaded, becoming static and unlinking from the actor's animation - Library Filters didn't work properly in the Drop panel - Raytraced features failed on 4D models in Unreal Engine 5.8.x - Some vehicle parts received delayed positions when using Motion Blur in Corona Renderer - The "Search" and "Downloaded only" filters didn't work in the Anima Drop window - The library was parsed on every 3ds Max plug-in initialization, even when no Anima scene was loaded - Unreal Engine crashed when importing a scene containing 4D walking models - Vehicles were missing when opening a saved scene in Cinema 4D ### **User interface & experience** - In Library Mode, the model disappeared after multiple attempts to create variations - Multiple vehicles couldn't be selected and placed in the viewport - Search by name, introduced in Anima 7, didn't work reliably - Several resources didn't appear in the actor selection widget - The missing resources tooltip didn't work during "anipack" creation - Various dialog windows had broken layouts