timer animation help

[nova jolt]

how to make an animation only happen every couple of seconds instead of a constant loop

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[nova jolt]

i have a model and i want it to do an animation that occurs every other 10 seconds

instead of constantly playing over and over

[winter schooner]

When you say animation are you talking about a texture animation or about something else?

[nova jolt]

Yes a texture animation

But are you not able to animate a block in a block Java item

[winter schooner]

in that case you could set the last (or first) frame to last longer in your .mcmeta file of the animated texture

[winter schooner]

not directly
there is some data packs and plugins that split the model into several item models (one per bone) and fake animation like that, hence why I asked just in case

!faq animated-textures

[woven sedge]

FAQ

Java: Animated Textures

Here is an old (but still valid) tutorial on animated textures for Minecraft: Java Edition (vanilla):
https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/resource-packs/resource-pack-discussion/1256350-animation-in-resource-packs-a-minecraft-1-6

[winter schooner]

so your animation .mcmeta could be like this example from that tutorial:

{
 "animation": {
  "frames": [
    0,
    1,
    2,
    { "index": 3, "time": 20},
    4,
    5,
    6
  ]
 }
}```
(formatted it slightly different than the tutorial one to be more readable (at least imo))

in your case you'd do that for the first or last index (aka frame of your animated texture)
One thing to keep in mind: Since it starts counting from 0, if you have 8 frames for example, the last frame index would be 7, not 8