Can player animator animate bones directly from minecraft (what geckolib does with e.g. preRender)

[noble thicket]

^

So in geckolib I can set a bone rotation by overriding preRender

[timber lodge]

You could use a modifier (take a look at the AbstractModifier and it's descendants + the ModifierLayer class to learn more)
You could also just animate the player using bones no JSON anims involved using the PlayerAnimationFrame class

[noble thicket]

And so another question, if I modify player's model via mixin, would the new bones be animatable?

[timber lodge]

Not by default, but you could probably add support for it yourself
But I would rather not explain how to do that, I plan to document the mod soon so that documentation will be able to help you whenever it's ready

[noble thicket]

Ehh
should i make a fork or there's some api for that?

I need it rn

[timber lodge]

Feel free to give it a shot

[noble thicket]

I don't think it's a good idea to make a separate post soo
Should i call .addAnimation every tick or only once at some point?

[noble thicket]

nvm found out how to do it already