Epic Fight × TacZ Compat

A client-only compatibility patch that restores TacZ's gun animations — both first-person (reload, inspect, draw) and third-person (gun-holding pose, body tilt, leg stance) — when Epic Fight is installed alongside TacZ.

Two builds are published, one per Minecraft version. Pick the jar that matches your Minecraft / mod-loader combination:

• 1.21.1 / NeoForge — the primary target.
• 1.20.1 / Forge — backport, same behaviour.

TacZ, Epic Fight, and PlayerAnimator are all required. The mod will refuse to load without them — it has no purpose on its own.

Summary

Restores TacZ's first-person and third-person gun animations when Epic Fight is installed. Client-only.

The problem

When TacZ and Epic Fight are loaded together, two regressions appear:

• First person: Epic Fight's combat-mode renderer takes over the player's arms before TacZ can run its ItemInHandRenderer chain. Reload, inspect, and draw animations silently disappear while you hold a gun.
• Third person: even after forcing Epic Fight into vanilla mode, Epic Fight's HumanoidModel.setupAnim TAIL inject still runs after TacZ's, wiping out the gun-holding pose. The player reverts to the default vanilla walking animation.

What this mod does

Three orthogonal fixes:

1. First-person tick patch. Every client tick, while the local player is holding a TacZ gun (IGun), forces Epic Fight back to vanilla mode via LocalPlayerPatch.toVanillaMode(false). Combat mode resumes the moment you swap to a non-gun item.
2. Third-person mixin. A single HumanoidModel.setupAnim TAIL inject at priority=1500 (so it runs after Epic Fight's) re-invokes TacZ's InnerThirdPersonManager.setRotationAnglesHead, restoring the gun-holding pose.
3. PlayerAnimator dependency. TacZ's third-person logic only plays the full-body gun animation (body tilt, leg stance, kneeling crouch) when PlayerAnimator is on the classpath; otherwise it silently falls back to an arm-only pose. This mod makes PlayerAnimator a required dependency so the visual matches TacZ-standalone.

No asset replacement, no server-side code, no config files.

Requirements

Pick the row that matches the jar you downloaded.

Downloads are published per Minecraft version — make sure the jar filename matches your Minecraft version before dropping it into mods/. Mixing a 1.21.1 build into a 1.20.1 instance (or vice versa) will not load.

Installation

1. Install the matching mod loader for your Minecraft version (NeoForge for 1.21.1, Forge for 1.20.1).
2. Drop TacZ, Epic Fight, PlayerAnimator, and the version-matching build of this mod into your mods/ folder. All four mods must be on the same Minecraft version.
3. Launch. TacZ animations should play normally in both first and third person while a gun is equipped, and Epic Fight stances work as usual for everything else.

This mod only runs on the client. It's safe to omit on dedicated servers.

Known limitations

• Only the local player is patched in first person. Other players holding guns will still render with Epic Fight's combat armature on your screen — fixing that would require touching server state and is out of scope. (The third-person mixin applies to every player.)
• The patch assumes the public API signatures of TacZ (IGun, InnerThirdPersonManager.setRotationAnglesHead), Epic Fight (LocalPlayerPatch.toVanillaMode, isEpicFightMode, EpicFightCapabilities.getCachedLocalPlayerPatch) and the mod ID of PlayerAnimator (playeranimator). If any of these change in a future release, this patch will need a rebuild.

Source / Issues

• Source: https://github.com/Ardelhite/epic-tacz
• Bug reports: https://github.com/Ardelhite/epic-tacz/issues

License

MIT — do whatever you want, no warranty.

Credits

• The TacZ team and the unofficial 1.21.1 NeoForge porter for keeping the gun mod alive on modern versions.
• Yesman / the Epic Fight team for the combat mod.
• KosmX for PlayerAnimator, without which TacZ's third-person gun animation falls back to an arm-only pose.

This project is not affiliated with TacZ, Epic Fight, or PlayerAnimator.