Punchy X Gliders

Punchy x Gliders is a small compatibility addon for Minecraft 1.21.1 — NeoForge, designed to address the first-person rendering conflict between Punchy! and Gliders, which can make deployed gliders appear excessively dark.

While a glider is actively deployed in first person, the addon temporarily bypasses Punchy’s custom hand rendering and camera animations, allowing Gliders to use its original rendering path and normal lighting.

Punchy resumes its usual behavior when the glider closes. Simply holding or equipping a glider, jumping or falling without deploying it does not activate the bypass. Third-person behavior remains unchanged.

The addon only adjusts rendering compatibility. It adds no gameplay content and does not modify gliding physics, textures, models or either original mod’s JAR.

Installation

Install the addon alongside Punchy and Gliders in your client’s mods folder, with their required dependencies. Multiplayer servers do not need this addon.

About this project

This unofficial addon was created with AI assistance for my personal modpack. I’m sharing it for other players who want to use these two mods together.

Credits

• Punchy! — First Person Animations — by DevPunchyMan, with contributions from Godku4.

• Gliders — by Jeryn, with TommyCBricks and tamlighter credited as authors, and teacup as artist.

All credit for the original mods, their features and assets belongs to their respective creators. This addon is an independent compatibility project.