Full Motion Animation Library

Full Motion

A player animation overhaul and animation library for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Fabric and Forge).

Full Motion gives every player real elbows and knees, then puts them to use. Walking, crouching, swimming, treading water, flying and diving get their own motion-captured animations. Each one blends smoothly into the next, and your armor bends right along with you.

It is also a shared library: other mods can swap in their own animations or take over the whole body, and they all play nicely together. Unity Parkour and Total Bowverhaul already use it, and both include it, so you don’t need to download it separately for them.

Features

• Bending limbs – arms and legs are drawn in two pieces with real elbows and knees, skin outer layer included
• Bent armor – chestplate sleeves, leggings and boots bend with the limbs (dyed leather, enchantment glint and modded armor)
• Walking – a motion-captured walk with a proper first step when you set off
• Walking backwards – its own backpedal instead of the forward walk played in reverse
• Crouch walking – a low, careful sneak with the feet kept on the ground
• Swimming – a full swimming stroke at the surface and underwater
• Treading water – stays upright and paddles when you’re not moving in the water
• Dive (default: sprint off an edge into water) – dive in head first, easing in from your run and out into a swim
• Slide (default: crouch while sprinting) – drop into a feet-first slide that fits under one-block gaps
• Superman flight (default: sprint while flying in creative) – fly flat out like a superhero
• Flight steering (default: sprint while flying in creative) – fly the way you look, up and down too, like an elytra
• Stride matching – steps follow the distance you actually move, so feet don’t slide
• Smooth blending – every switch between animations crossfades instead of snapping
• Every player – other players animate too, worked out from how they move
• Combat-safe arms – a swinging, blocking or aiming arm keeps vanilla’s pose under any animation
• Resource pack support – animations load from assets, so resource packs can replace them
• Config – turn it off, animate only yourself, or switch off single animations

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Fabric (with Fabric API) or Forge 47 or newer
• Works client side. The slide also needs Full Motion on the server (without it there’s no slide, and everything else still works)

Config

config/fullmotion.json:

• enabled – turn all of Full Motion’s animations on or off
• otherPlayers – animate other players, or only yourself
• disabled – a list of animation ids to switch off one by one

For mod developers

Full Motion is built to be shared. With its API you can:

• Replace a movement – supply your own animation for idle, walk, walk backwards, sprint, sneak, swim, tread water or flying. The highest priority wins, and Full Motion’s own animations always give way to yours
• Take over the whole body – draw climbs, emotes or special moves with a pose provider, with priorities
• Add jump and start clips – give a movement its own jump through the air or a first step from standing
• Draw an arm yourself – claim an arm for one frame (a bow draw, for example) and Full Motion leaves it to you
• Play clips – load animation clips from your mod’s assets

Bundle it inside your mod (jar-in-jar) so players don’t need a separate download.

Compatibility

• Made to work together with Unity Parkour and Total Bowverhaul, which both bundle it
• Not yet tested alongside other mods that change the player model or animations (for example Not Enough Animations or First-person Model)

License

MIT