Nerdy's Player Animator

Supported MCreator versions
2025.2
Tags / plugin type
API support
Global triggers
Procedures
player animator
Downloads:
21963
Upvotes: 189
About the plugin

Nerdy's Player Animator is a plugin that allows you to animate the player model with bedrock entity keyframe animations using blockbench



How to use

First, you will need to click here to download the official blockbench player model you will be animating. Now that you have the model, you will need to create animation for it in blockbench. If you do not know how to create and export blockbench model animations, watch a tutorial on how to do so.

Once you have your .json animations file, you will need to navigate to the resources section and find the new player animator tab. Here, you can import your animations files.


Once you have imported your files, you can use the play animation procedure block, in which all your animations are listed.


You can also stop any ongoing animations using the stop animation procedure block. This will work on any other animations being played by mods using this plugin.



Important information

  • Java plugins must be enabled for the procedure blocks and player animations resource tab to work

  • This plugin requires the forge mixins plugin to be installed

  • No external dependencies are included in your mod, this is all using code provided by the plugin

  • The plugin should only be loaded if you plan on using player animations, as otherwise it will generate all of its player animation related code for no reason and bloat your mod

  • When playing the animation, it will respect the loop type set in blockbench; a looping animation will loop and a hold on last frame animation will freeze on the last frame, so you will need to use the stop animation procedure block to end them


Changelog

v1.0
-Plugin release

Legacy player animator versions archive:
1.8.1 for 2024.1
1.9 for 2024.1 and 2024.2
2.1 for 2024.3 and 2024.4
License
MIT License

Plugin downloads
Nerdy's Player Animator v1.0 (2025.2 ONLY) - nerdys_player_animator.zip Uploaded on: 10/17/2025 - 08:12   File size: 40.48 KB

Comments

Nevermind, if anyone is experiencing this issue, just use world event tick and for each player in world to play animations for it to be server sided without the server sided plugin.

Hey nerdy! Developer of prime piece, prime slayers here. We're using your plugins for our mods massing around 600k+ downloads but we have a large issue. We're using MCREATOR 2023.4 with alot of plugins and we're using this plugin to do important things like hiding the player with armor on during transformation and moves and we were wondering if you could make a server sided version for 2023.4? Thank you for your time!

nerdy are you planning to fix the first person arm rendering feature?

Uhm I'm using this plugin on 1.20.4 and it keeps crashing. The logs make it look like it's not finding the api, but I have the api AND the mod installed because even that didn't work.

for me the rotation broke for my animations, how can i fix it??

i have a flight animation but the player isnt rotating at all

I didn't see the image....Well I really needs a help:(

once i select player animation in workspace>workspace setting>external APIs, i cant even run MC anymore.it crash every time.

it just doesnt work. I played around with this plugin for hours but it just wont play the animations when im in game. Its in the right folder and everthing is named correctly and i just have a simple on key release procedure but it just wont play. Uninstalled. just gonna find a diffrent way to animate the player model.

You can actually make it play multiplayer using the same code snippet Nerdy used for the 1.9 update, I tested and it works! The only thing is that you have to lock your procedure code so Mcreator doesn't override it. This is a bad practice if you're developing multi versions minecraft mods.

I have one problem, after uploading Player Animator, I don't want to run Gradle because of blocks

Sir Nerdy puzzle I am DEA__TH the maker of the mod Cosmic Horizons. I needed your help and thus am writting this to you. I had no other way to contact you so am trying to contact you. Plz join my discord I need some help. https://discord.com/invite/mfK7YYKu

Hey! The animations folder isn't being created for me. I've tried several things to fix it, such as uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin, refractoring the project, and also just creating the folder myself and moving the animations in there which just results in a crash. What can I do?

I'm using the newest version of MCreator, 2024.2, but when I use the latest version of this plugin, it won't load, and it doesn't show up in the API's menu of the workspace settings. My exact version is 2024.2.29712. Will the latest version of this plugin, v1.9, work with it?