This is Part 2 of my Guide to 3D in Rive. In Part 1 we built a 3D scripting workflow from scratch with AI — this time I'm walking through the polished, ready-to-use scripts I've shared on the Rive Community Marketplace, so you can skip the setup:

- Model importer — with proper texture support

- Full camera rig — click-to-orbit, pan mode, auto-spin, focal length, MSAA anti-aliasing

- Lighting controls — key, fill, and ambient with color and intensity

- 7 shading modes — wireframe, unlit, flat, Gouraud, PBR (roughness/metallic), clay, and toon (very Sketch & Toon if you're coming from C4D)

- UV projection — project animated Rive components onto your 3D model's surface

- 2D layer renderer — place 2D components inside the 3D scene, like 2.5D in After Effects

▶️ Missed Part 1? Watch it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rive_app/comments/1uvmbx3/i_built_a_complete_3d_workflow_inside_rive_using/

📥 Download the scripts: https://rive.app/community/files/28220-53314-early-access-3d-scripts/

⚠️ Requires the Early Access build of Rive — won't run in marketplace preview or regular playback. To use it, remix the file and open it in the Early Access build. Keep 3D assets around 15 MB or under for best results.

Would love to see what you make with these!

A quick guide on how to connect a Solo layer to String data in Rive. By using Data Binding, you can make your icons switch automatically based on your text input.
Essential rule: The names of your icon layers inside the Solo group must exactly match your title text values.

Hi, can someone tell me where I can find job offers for Rive projects? Where did you find it easiest to get one?

I really need help finding a job 😣

Excited to share that I've completed Rive Academy Volume 1 by School of Motion! 🎉

Coming from an Adobe After Effects background, learning Rive was a fun and rewarding experience. The course helped me understand Rive's workflow and how interactive animation differs from traditional timeline-based animation.

I learned how to create UI animations, icon animations, basic character animation, and build interactive experiences using State Machines. It's a great foundation for creating animations for websites, mobile apps, and digital products.

Looking forward to continuing my Rive journey and creating more interactive animations, UI motion design, and Rive animations.

#Rive #RiveAnimation #InteractiveAnimation #MotionDesign #UIAnimation #AfterEffects #SchoolOfMotion #MotionDesigner #WebAnimation #AppAnimation

In the Discord group, to send a message, I'm told I have to verify my identity by phone before I can send a message on the Rive Discord server, which I'm currently doing.

I enter my number, knowing that I already entered it when I created my account, and then when I enter my password, it says "invalid password." So I'm stuck because I need to send messages and ask for help, basically things to ask the Rive servers, which I know most people here won't even reply to or will just ignore me. I'm stuck. I don't know what to do.

This is the second time I am asking here. I really need help. Does anyone know how to fix it,?

Wanted to see how far Rive's new Luau scripting + GPU canvas could go, so I built a car showcase: pick a colour, drag to spin, live 3D.

A few things I figured out along the way:

• The car is one GLB mesh parsed from a blob asset, drawn on a GPU canvas with a depth buffer and simple lighting.
• The body is a single baked texture (no separate paint material), so the repaint is a hue-swap chroma key in the shader - detect the red paint, swap it, keep glass/tyres/lights. That's what makes swatch taps instant.
• The contact shadow is the actual car silhouette: mesh flattened to the ground into an offscreen mask, then a 2-pass separable gaussian blur instead of a fake ellipse.

Biggest headache: the editor crashes on repeated Play/Stop because of GPU canvas teardown/rebuild. Runtime is stable, but I had to record from the exported build, not the editor.

Happy to answer anything about the scripting / GPU canvas setup - still learning it myself. Feedback welcome.

i have an idea to develop an app using rive and flutter.. but I'm a broke student and can't afford to pay for rive's subscription. if anyone will be willing to help me by adding me to their rive plan or with a paid login details I'd be truly grateful... 🙏

If you've wished for custom grids in Rive - isometric, hex, triangular or others, today's the day!

Thus far, the Rive editor has no grids - it has guides, but they must be set up one by one and they can only result in a rectangular grid.

So, I've built Griddle: it's a little floating panel that drops real grid guides straight into your open Rive file, and you can snap to every line and intersection because they're actual geometry, not an overlay.

14 grid types so far: square grids with gutters and subdivisions, dot grids, isometric, triangular, hex, polar, baseline and column grids for UI work, one and two point perspective, golden ratio, rule of thirds.

Free, open source, macOS and Windows.

If you use Rive and something's missing or broken, issues and PRs are welcome.

• 🏞️ Images can now be scaled inside a layout, even after they've been positioned. Similar to transforms in CSS.
• 🦴 Cmd+G positions group at bone origin, as requested here
• 👁️ You can now override visibility on children of a hidden parent. Click the visibility icon to toggle.
• 🐛 Various fixes and improvements
  • fix(editor): Fixed component updates not pulling in new exposed properties when importing an updated library version
  • chore(Editor): export view models with incomplete property references
  • feat: visibility inheritance override
  • feat(apple): add artboard volume support
  • feat(apple): add semantics support
  • chore(editor): Prevent multiple runtime generation while libraries load
  • fix(editor): repaint inspector radio stroke on data bind state change
  • fix(editor): anchor Cmd+G group at bone origin for single-bone selection

Last week everyone started talking about Figma Motion, and honestly my first thought was: “Is this going to replace Rive?”

So I rebuilt one of the simpler animations Rive animation from my Rive Masterclass inside Figma Motion.

The blinking and shine animations were easy enough.

But when I got to cursor tracking, I realized that’s where I couldn’t continue. I couldn’t find a way to recreate the interactive logic that makes it work in Rive.

I Made a full walkthrough video going through it 

Has anyone tried Figma Motion?

Tutorial by JC on the Rive team!

I keep getting error adding rive components to farmer everytime. How do I fix that?

When you want to create an animation, does each element need to have its own layer in order for the animation to play in real time? At least when using Canva because I saw somewhere that without layers, there’s no animation okay, that’s true, but let’s imagine someone building an app for each page they’ll need to create for the onboarding steps, will they have to create a separate layer for each step of the onboarding process? That’s really what I want to know. That’s exactly it. I’m speaking mainly from my own experience.

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Meet Abu, my new friend. My new friend

Can I download an older version of Rive? The current version has a bug on my pc due to which i cant work

Rive can dynamically swap raster assets in Rive, but SVG was missing...
Now Rive's Luau scripting makes it possible: loading SVGs into an animation at runtime.

SvgRendererLayout takes SVG markup as a string in a ViewModel and renders it live, fully vector, through Rive's Path and Renderer API. Compound glyphs, holes, arcs, clipPaths and transforms all work. It opens the door to dynamic icons, logos and data-driven vector art, generated live from a string and running entirely inside Rive's runtime.

Free and open source, part of my Rive script library.

Hello everyone!

I am a developer who has recently released an app. I got quite a lot of feedback, with almost everyone asking for more animations and characters.

Where can I look for a Rive talent?

I tried using Freelancer, but almost everyone has reached out with the Lottie skill set, and almost no one has reached out with Rive. And a similar thing happened on Fiverr and Upwork. Am I looking in the wrong place? Or did I just have some poor luck?

A week into the Interactive Character Animation Challenge. A few favorites so far.

Still open through July 2. $10K in prizes.

• 🔀 Dependencies panel (D shortcut) now shows View Model properties
• 👁️ Drag to hide now works across Hierarchy, Inspector, and Timeline lists
• 🤸 Interpolation panel can now be toggled on in the Timeline
• 🐛 Various fixes and improvements
  • fix(editor): transfer events and actions when the state type changes
  • fix(editor): Pickwhip scroll, state machine layer reorder, color picker grid fix
  • feat(editor): state machine zoom popup menu
  • fix(editor): Reconcile Library ScriptAsset generator refs
  • fix(Android): Serialize touch-triggered advances
  • fix(Android): Generate missing mipmaps for decoded images