VRRW animation – OBJ ANIM

✨ VRRW ANIMATION: OBJ ANIM

🎬 Vote live on the next animations, style and art questions – help decide what OBJ Anim brings next.

Community-driven VRRW: give feedback, vote in polls during selected livestreams, join feature suggestion rounds and react to new ideas with Blitz Reactions. AI Reborn also has built-in voting, suggestion and bug-report tools.

🎨 YOUR OWN 3D MODELS – ANIMATED INSIDE MINECRAFT

OBJ Anim imports Wavefront OBJ + MTL models (for example exported from Blender), puts them on entities, blocks, items or your own player, and lets you animate them with an in-game keyframe and bone animator.

Made for builders, 3D artists, animators and modders who want their own creatures, props and moving machines in Minecraft – and want to fine-tune them without leaving the game.

Import. Animate. Edit. Replace. Build.

🌿 The toolkit behind VRRW Overworld. OBJ Anim works on its own and is the required companion for VRRW Overworld. Both are built to work together across models, Smooth Terrain / SurfaceNet, rendering and shading, so update them together.

🎁 FREE WITH VRRW

• ✅ OBJ Anim is free – importer, animators, workbench and Smooth Terrain are all in this download, with no paid features inside. VRRW Overworld and AI Reborn are free too.
• 🎁 Texture-pack gifts at selected live events – giveaway codes, chat prizes or, when offered, Channel Points rewards on Twitch and Kick. Free giveaways need no channel subscription. Redeem them with a free VRRW account on the VRRW Twitch or Kick page, then download the pack under “Library” in the texture shop. All steps →
• ⭐ VRRW Points – website points, not Channel Points; live prizes can also pay out in points. No plan? Signed-in members can unlock individual texture-pack versions with them. About VRRW Points →
• 🧩 Offers – long-term quizzes and challenge programs on VRRW Offers whenever they run.

_{Each stream round decides what is offered. Entering is not winning – prizes are reserved after the draw and claimed on the website.}

Texture packs are optional extras. You never need one to use OBJ Anim.

▶️ WATCH VRRW IN ACTION

_{OBJ Anim ships without VRRW’s own showcase models – it works with your own OBJ files.}

🔥 WHAT OBJ ANIM CAN DO

• 📂 Import OBJ + MTL – drop models and their textures into config/objanim/import/….
• 🧍 Replace models – put your model on an entity, block, item or your own player (Steve). The target search includes other installed mods.
• 🎞️ Keyframe animator – in-game timeline with position, rotation and scale per part, one animation per activity (idle, walk, attack, sleep, eat, drink or your own).
• 🦴 Bone Animator – build a rig, assign vertices, paint weights or use auto weight, apply animation presets and detect the legs of four-legged creatures automatically.
• 🧠 Behaviors – sleeping at night, lying down, eating, drinking and idle emotions. Vanilla AI can stay active.
• 🛠️ Model Workbench – edit meshes, vertices, UVs and textures in-game with Blender-style shortcuts, then export OBJ + PNG.
• 🧱 Animated OBJ blocks – give a block an animated OBJ look while it keeps its gameplay: decorations, signs, machines, statues.
• 🔊 Custom sounds – your own .ogg files, played when an animation reaches the keyframe you choose.
• 🖼️ Thumbnails & JSON – automatic model previews and animation snapshots exported as JSON.
• 🌄 Smooth Terrain / SurfaceNet – smooth ground with its own collision, climbing, terrain sculpting and tree felling.
• 🤖 AI animator (experimental, optional) – let an Ollama model draft a rig and animations for your model.
• 🧩 APIs for other mods – VRRW Overworld builds on OBJ Anim, and AI Reborn connects to it when both are installed.

🌄 SMOOTH TERRAIN – REALISTIC SURFACENET

Smoother, more natural ground instead of pure cubes, with a collision system built for it: walk up slopes, slide down, hold V to climb steep walls and take fall damage from real heights.

• 🌍 Your choice per world – the terrain card on the Create World screen turns SurfaceNet on or off and picks a sculpt mode. Change it later with /objanim surfacenet on|off.
• ⛏️ Sculpt modes – Off (normal mining), Break only (vanilla mining; the surface visibly wears away as you dig, without permanent marks) and Full (shovel and pickaxe shape the ground for good). Change it with /objanim sculpting off|breakonly|full.
• 🪓 Tree felling – a clean axe cut, and the trunk falls as an animated block cluster.
• 📈 SurfaceNet Skills (P) – upgrade endurance, climbing, downhill, balance, jump and digging. Terrain graphics settings are there too.

⚠️ New collision system: it is part of the terrain implementation, so the old M mode toggle no longer works the way it used to. SurfaceNet is now chosen per world. M only switches the smooth-terrain detail (Surface Low / Surface High).

⚙️ REQUIREMENTS & INSTALLATION

| | |
|—|—|
| 🎮 Minecraft | Java Edition 1.21.1 |
| 🧩 Loader | NeoForge 21.1.176 or newer |
| 🖥️ Install on | Client and server (the editors run on the client) |
| 📦 Required mods | None |
| 🤖 Optional | Ollama for the AI animator |
| 🌿 Used by | VRRW Overworld (requires OBJ Anim) |

1. Install NeoForge for Minecraft 1.21.1 and add OBJ Anim to your mods folder (or install it with your launcher).
2. Start the game once – OBJ Anim creates config/objanim/ with its import folders.
3. Copy your .obj + .mtl files and textures into import/entity, import/block, import/item or import/custommodels.
4. In game, press O, pick your model, choose a target and click Save & apply.

💾 HARDWARE AT A GLANCE

VRRW Overworld + OBJ Anim with SurfaceNet terrain – creator values:

| Your setup | GPU memory (VRAM) |
| — | — |
| 🌄 SurfaceNet terrain with vanilla textures | about 1 GB – but more GPU work than flat vanilla blocks |
| 🐾 + the optional animated Entity Pack (300–400 MB) | about 2–3 GB, depending on texture resolution |
| 🏆 Full look: SurfaceNet + animated entities + Gold-level texture pack | about 3 GB |
| 🏙️ + Nations & Villagers – AI Reborn | only about +200 MB more |

• 🧠 RAM: give Minecraft at least 6 GB – 10–12 GB is better for Gold-level texture packs.
• 🎮 GPU: GTX 1060 class as a minimum, RTX 2050 class or newer as a better target. Smooth SurfaceNet terrain keeps VRAM low, but the GPU works harder than with flat vanilla blocks.
• 🎨 Texture levels: Copper, Silver and Gold – a lower level needs less VRAM.
• Guidance values, not guarantees. The Entity Pack and texture packs are optional – everything is fully playable without them.

[[dependencies.yourmod]]
modId="objanim"
type="optional"   # or "required"
versionRange="[0.3.1,)"
ordering="NONE"
side="BOTH"

// Does this world use SurfaceNet? (com.bastegk.objanim.api)
boolean smooth = SurfaceNetWorldApi.isActive(level);

// Animation state of an entity (com.bastegk.objanim.common)
OBJEntityData data = OBJEntityManager.getOrCreate(entity);
OBJModel model = data.getCurrentModel();
String activity = data.getCurrentActivity();
int tick = data.getAnimationTick();

// OBJ model path behind an item stack, client side (com.bastegk.objanim.client)
String path = ItemDisplayAPI.getObjModelPath(stack);

❓ GOOD TO KNOW

• 🔢 Version numbers: Modrinth version 5.0.0 contains the file objanim-0.3.1.jar. The in-game mod list shows it as OBJ Entity Animator 0.3.1.
• 🌿 Using VRRW Overworld? Always update OBJ Anim and VRRW Overworld together.
• ⌨️ Shared default keys: the VRRW mods share some default keys – for example O, P, M, F6 and V (AI Reborn / OBJ Anim) and F7, F8 (AI Reborn / VRRW Overworld). Rebind them under Options → Controls. OBJ Anim’s climb grip always reacts to V, so move AI Reborn’s push-to-talk to another key. VRRW Options also open from the pause menu.
• 🤖 AI animator: optional and experimental. It uses Ollama; on Windows the editor can install Ollama for you after checking the installer’s signature. Local models run on your PC. Cloud models (names ending in -cloud or :cloud) run on Ollama’s servers and receive your instruction plus the model’s measurements, detected regions, bone names and current animation.
• 🗣️ Language: some newer menus (world terrain card, SurfaceNet Skills, in-game help) are currently in German.
• 🧪 Back up important worlds before you update. VRRW is actively evolving.

🌍 JOIN THE VRRW COMMUNITY

Follow live development on Twitch or Kick and vote on what comes next. The community pages show the stream schedule and channel recommendations – and that’s where you redeem live gifts.

• 🟣 Twitch community & stream schedule →
• 💚 Kick community & stream schedule →
• 🔴 Community Live Actions – current activities & gifts →
• 📰 VRRW News →
• ❓ Questions? r/MinecraftVRRW →

🌐 MORE FROM VRRW

• 🏙️ Nations & Villagers – AI Reborn → – AI citizens, settlements, nations, economy and diplomacy in one connected world.
• 🌿 VRRW Overworld – Foliage and Trees → – redesigned foliage, trees, vegetation, rocks and natural surface detail, combined with VRRW’s own visual and shader systems. Requires OBJ Anim.
• 🌌 VRRW Unlimited – all three mods in one modpack. Coming soon.

🌿 VRRW Overworld = environment and visuals · ✨ OBJ Anim = models and animation · 🏙️ AI Reborn = civilization and connected gameplay

🎨 OPTIONAL: VRRW TEXTURE PACKS

VRRW also makes realistic texture packs in three resolution levels – Copper, Silver and Gold – with the same content; a lower level needs less VRAM. They are offered separately in the VRRW texture shop and are not required for OBJ Anim.

📜 License: All Rights Reserved.

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⚖️ Not an official Minecraft product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.