Rigging primitives by hand in Altar Forge.
Not every move wants the oracle. Sometimes you reach for the anvil — here is how Forge builds a rig from primitives.
Lede
Altar Forge is the anvil — the station where you make a thing by hand. No prompt, no conjuring, just precise tools laid out the way a workbench is.
Forge ships the manual tools: Anchor Align, primitive shapes, and the rigs that bind them together. You lay a primitive, set its anchor where it belongs, and wire the controls you want to drive. The plugin handles the fiddly ExtendScript underneath; you handle the design.
Building a rig
A rig in Forge is a small, honest machine:
- Drop a primitive — a rectangle, an ellipse, a path you control
- Pull its anchor to the pivot the motion actually turns on
- Bind a control so one slider drives the whole assembly
Craft over conjuring
The Forge exists because not every move belongs to the oracle. When you know exactly what you want, you do not describe it — you forge it. Chat can summon a starting point; Forge is where a working designer files it down to fit.