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SmoothPlayerAnimations

A lightweight player animation enhancement mod for Minecraft.

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Best match for your filters SmoothPlayerAnimations 2.1.0 - Fabric 26.3
Game version 26.3
Loader Fabric

SmoothPlayerAnimations 2.1.0 - Fabric 26.3 targets 26.3 with Fabric. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. All 1 required mods have matching files.

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SmoothPlayerAnimations 2.1.0 - Fabric 26.3 on Fabric. Every mod below is checked against that same setup.

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About this project

What does SmoothPlayerAnimations add?

Smooth Player Animations

Smooth, highly compatible player animations for Minecraft, with a player model whose elbows, knees and spine bend.

You can create your own animations. Click here to view.


Features

  • Bending arms, legs and body: elbows, knees and the back bend like a real body. Your skin, armor and cape bend along with it, with no gaps at the joints.
  • Smooth movement: walking, sprinting, sneaking, jumping, landing, swimming, crawling, climbing, riding and flying all have their own animations, and they flow into each other. Your feet move at your real speed, so they don't slide.
  • A living body: your head and upper body follow where you look, and you lean when you start running, stop or turn.
  • Combat and items: a two-strike sword combo, drawing weapons from your shoulder and items from your waist, and their own swings for pickaxes, axes, shovels and more.
  • Cape and lantern physics: your cape streams behind you when you run and settles when you stop; a held lantern swings on its chain.
  • You choose: every animation can be turned off on its own in the settings, and you can pick which animation any item (including items from other mods) uses.

Two Ways to Play

You can switch between two styles in the mod's settings with the CEM engine option.

CEM engine off (default) CEM engine on
Player model Bending model: elbows, knees and back bend Classic Minecraft model with straight limbs
Movement animations This mod's own animations From the Fresh Animations: Player Extension resource pack
Hand actions (sword combo, eating, drinking, holding items, …) This mod This mod adds what Fresh Animations doesn't have
Cape and lantern physics ✓ ✓
Armor Bends with the body Follows Fresh Animations' poses
What you need Nothing else Fresh Animations and its Player Extension, enabled as resource packs
  • Off is for the full experience of this mod: the bending model and all its animations.
  • On is for players who already love Fresh Animations and want to keep its look. Fresh Animations is the base and plays the movement (idle, walking, running, jumping, …); this mod only adds its extension animations on top: hand actions, item holds, and cape and lantern physics.
  • If you turn it on without Fresh Animations, the game tells you where to get it. After switching, press F3 + T to reload.

Showcase

CEM engine off (default): the bending model

Smooth Movement

Smooth movement

Cape Physics

Cape physics

Sword Combo

Sword combo

Tools

Mining

Lantern

Lantern

Swimming

Swimming

CEM engine on: extension animations over Fresh Animations

Since 2.0, the CEM engine only provides extension animations like these, with Fresh Animations as the base.

Sword Combo

Sword combo with the CEM engine

Tools

Mining with the CEM engine

Bow

Drawing and shooting a bow with the CEM engine

Eating and Drinking

Eating and drinking with the CEM engine

Lantern

Lantern with the CEM engine

Cape Physics

Cape physics with the CEM engine

From earlier versions

These were recorded before 2.0, on the classic model.

Dynamic Idle Animations

Dynamic idle

Hold Poppy

Hold poppy

Item Usage

Item usage

Mod Compatibility

Mod compatibility

Compatibility

Works alongside many popular mods, including:


Performance

Lightweight and suitable for:

  • Singleplayer
  • Multiplayer
  • Large Modpacks

Requirements

Player Animation Library, playerAnimator and the resource pack are no longer needed.


Note

Updating from a version before 2.0: delete the old jar first. Settings start fresh, and the old animation resource pack is no longer used.

Credits

Versions before 2.0 used animations from KelvinsBetterPlayerAnimations (MIT). All animations since 2.0 are original.

Thanks to everyone who provides feedback, testing, bug reports and suggestions. Without their help, this project would not have been possible.

Introduction

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Project description from CurseForge.

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