Emote Studio

An in-game animation editor for Emotecraft emotes. Pose, keyframe and preview your emotes right inside Minecraft, with support for multi-character scenes such as Carry On and piggyback.

Features

• In-Game Editor: Edit Emotecraft JSON emotes with a 3D preview, a timeline and transform gizmos
• Graph Editor: Fine-tune easing with custom curves for each part
• Multi-Character Scenes: Up to 3 characters per emote, with Carry On / Piggyback position presets
• Custom Skins: Preview with your own skin, the default skins or any PNG from the skins folder
• Emote Picture: Take a picture of the emote for one character or every character in the scene
• Client-Side: No server-side installation required

Requirements

• Minecraft: 1.21.1 (NeoForge)
• LDLib2: 2.2.42 or higher
• Player Animator
• Emotecraft (to play your emotes in game)

How to Use

Opening the editor

• /emotestudio: opens the editor and asks which emote to open or create
• /emotestudio <file>: opens that file directly (Tab shows the files you can pick)

Emotes are read from and saved to .minecraft/emotes/. Only .json emotes can be edited. Emotecraft's binary .emotecraft files are not supported.

Making an animation

1. Click a body part on the model or in the timeline
2. Move the timeline to a tick, then pose the part with the gizmo
3. Press K to key the whole part, or use Add Keyframe
4. Press Space to play the animation and check it
5. Press Ctrl + S to save

Drag the end handle on the timeline to change the length. In Emote Settings / Files you can set Begin / End / Stop tick, Loop, Loop Return Tick, Display Name, Description and Author.

Shortcuts

In the graph editor, drag ● to move a point and right-click to delete it.

Multi-character scenes

• Add Character adds a new partner, and Import Character (emote file)… adds an existing emote as a partner
• Pick a character in Characters to edit its keyframes. Every character shares the same timing.
• Use the position presets to place the character for Carry On (held by P1) or Piggyback (on P1's back)
• On save, P1 is saved as <name>.json and each partner is saved beside it as <name>_p2.json, <name>_p3.json

Skins

Put a square PNG skin (64 px or HD) in .minecraft/emotes/skins/, then choose it in the character settings. Open Skins Folder opens that folder for you. Tick Slim Arms for skins with 3 px arms.

Emote picture

Open Camera · emote picture:

• Show Picture Frame shows the area that will be in the picture
• Focus chooses which character to save the picture for. The other characters are shown at 30% brightness.
  • P1 / P2 / P3: saves the picture only for that character (<name>.png, <name>_p2.png…)
  • All: saves the same picture for every character in the scene
• Take Picture saves the PNG beside the emote file (save the emote first)

How It Works

• Emote Format: Reads and writes Emotecraft's JSON format, so saved emotes play in Emotecraft directly
• Extra Data: Custom curves, partner links and character positions are kept in extra fields that Emotecraft ignores