animating models?

[slow canopy]

hi so, just wondering if it's possible to animate this java block/item, basically if u rename a carved pumpkin it turns into this, so i'm wondering how i can animate this?

[gray stone]

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[slow canopy]

oh yeha please ping me if u have an answer :3

[wintry sedge]

Block/Item models have no concept of animation unfortunately (besides animated textures, so I guess you could make it blink at least)

[slow canopy]

oof, that's sad, but thank you anyway!

[wintry sedge]

in theory you could also have very choppy fake animations with animated textures
(basically elements that have a transparent part of the texture in one of the animated frames, but colored pixels in the next frame and so on)

[slow canopy]

OHHH yeah yeah thanks for the idea, that's very smart

[wintry sedge]

hmm, can't find the faq right now that had a link to a video about that idea 🤔

[gray stone]

FAQ

Misc: Animation

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition

Models can be animated using the animation tab in the top right corner

Minecraft: Java Edition (Vanilla)

Java block and item models don't support animations natively.
You can use a tool like Animated Java to create animated entity models (!faq animated-java-plugin), or use animated textures to simulate movement like in this video.

OptiFine Entities

Optifine entities support expression based animations. More info can be found in the Optifine Documentation.

Minecraft: Java Edition Servers

Mobs on Minecraft servers can be animated using Model-Engine

Minecraft: Modded (Forge, Fabric, Quilt)

There are multiple ways to make animations based on your version. Simply put you can either use the Animation to Java Converter plugin for 1.19+ or Geckolib. For more details use the command !faq modded-animation

"Generic"-Format Models

Models can be animated using the animation tab in the top right corner. The animated models can be exported using the export format glTF.

[wintry sedge]

ah, there we go

https://youtu.be/Ub7JlZfktBA

(if you do go that route I'd highly suggest having separate textures for the animated and the static parts, else you have a lot of unecessary texture repetition)

[slow canopy]

ah shoot, soirry i didnt see ur message yesterday, but thank u!!