Character Animations (character_anim)

Animates the character. Resembles playeranim and headanim.

About

Depends on modlib. Code written by Lars Mueller aka LMD or appguru(eu) and licensed under the MIT license.

Screenshot

Links

• GitHub - sources, issue tracking, contributing
• Discord - discussion, chatting
• Minetest Forum - (more organized) discussion
• ContentDB - releases (cloning from GitHub is recommended)

Features

• Animates head, right arm & body
• Support for arbitrary player models, as long as Head, Arm_Right & Body bones exist
  • If any of these bones do not exist, it will still try to animate the remaining bones
• Advantages over playeranim:
  • Extracts exact animations and bone positions from b3d models at runtime (no complex installation)
  • Also animates attached players (with restrictions on angles)
• Advantages over headanim:
  • Provides compatibility back until Minetest 0.4.x (as opposed to headanim supporting only 5.3+)
  • Head angles are clamped, head can tilt sideways
  • Animates right arm & body as well

Configuration

default

arm_right

radius

Right arm spin radius

• Type: number
• Default: 10
• >= -180
• <= 180

speed

Right arm spin speed

• Type: number
• Default: 1000
• > 0
• <= 10000

yaw

max

Right arm yaw (max)

• Type: number
• Default: 160
• >= -180
• <= 180

min

Right arm yaw (min)

• Type: number
• Default: -30
• >= -180
• <= 180

body

turn_speed

Body turn speed

• Type: number
• Default: 0.2
• > 0
• <= 1000

head

pitch

max

Head pitch (max)

• Type: number
• Default: 80
• >= -180
• <= 180

min

Head pitch (min)

• Type: number
• Default: -60
• >= -180
• <= 180

yaw

max

Head yaw (max)

• Type: number
• Default: 90
• >= -180
• <= 180

min

Head yaw (min)

• Type: number
• Default: -90
• >= -180
• <= 180

yaw_restricted

max

Head yaw restricted (max)

• Type: number
• Default: 45
• >= -180
• <= 180

min

Head yaw restricted (min)

• Type: number
• Default: 0
• >= -180
• <= 180

yaw_restriction

Head yaw restriction

• Type: number
• Default: 60
• >= -180
• <= 180

models

Other models, same format as default model

API

Minetest's player:set_bone_position is overridden so that it still works as expected.

character_anim.set_bone_override(player, bonename, position, rotation)

The signature resembles that of set_bone_position. bonename must be a string. The following additional features are provided:

• Using it like set_bone_position by setting rotation and position to non-nil values and using "" to set the root bone
• Setting only the bone position by setting rotation to nil - bone rotation will then be model-animation-determined
• Setting only the bone rotation by setting position to nil - bone position will then be model-animation-determined
• Clearing the override by setting both rotation and position to nil ("unset_bone_position")