"Character Rig Creator" doesn't do anything... no windows/panels opened

Have installed the Animation and Rigging Toolset into Maya. In Maya I can see the Epic Games menu, but when I click the “Character Righ Creator” menu option, nothing happens. I get no skeleton window, no new panels, nothing. Have attached the screenshot of what I get - you can see a warning at the bottom and the “Channel Box” at the right hand side has changed, but nothing else… :frowning:

Can anyone help? I am new to all of this and really want to animate and rig in Maya then export out to UE4.

Thanks!

Interstingly if I then choose Epic Games - > Animatiion Interface, it asks if I want to add a character to the scene. When I choose “yes” and choose the sample Mannequin, I get the error shown in the screenshot below.

Thing is, I have no “build” directory on my d: drive. I dont recognise this at all. Perhaps the ART thinks my assets or scripts should be in this directory for some reason? Dunno… just on the offchance this helps someone debug the problem

lol I was almost banging my head against the desk. So the ART is popping up on the right side of the screen as a new tab, it’s in your first screenshot as well. You just gotta click it.

haha this actually helped me facepalm