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Supported Skript Version

2.16
2.17

Supported Minecraft Versions

1.21

SkCine
Bring Your Skripts to Life

SkCine is a Skript addon for cinematic cutscenes: smooth cameras, timelines, actors, display animations, particles, sound, dialogue and interactive choices.

You write everything in ordinary .sk files. There's no in-game editor, no YAML or JSON scene files and no scene-building commands. Your scenes reload with /sk reload like any other script.

Quick example

Code:

cine scene "rpg:welcome":
    skippable: true
    timeline:
        set {_c} to location of event-player
        add cine camera keyframe at {_c} ~ vector(0, 12, -14) at 0 seconds looking at {_c}
        add cine camera keyframe at {_c} ~ vector(12, 7, 0) at 4 seconds with easing "ease-in-out-sine" looking at {_c}
        add cine camera keyframe at {_c} ~ vector(0, 3, 6) at 8 seconds with easing "ease-in-out-sine" looking at {_c}
        at 1 second:
            show cine title "<gold><bold>Welcome!" with subtitle "<gray>Sneak to skip" for 3 seconds
            play cine sound "entity.player.levelup"
    on finish:
        send "&aWelcome aboard!" to event-player

command /welcome:
    trigger:
        play cine scene "rpg:welcome" for player

Features

Smooth cameras

Keyframe paths: Bézier, Catmull–Rom, Hermite, linear and step
33 easings and smooth (quaternion) rotation
Orbit, follow, track and hold shots with blending between them
Camera shake and dolly zoom
Full-screen colour fades and flashes, no resource pack needed

⏱ Timelines

Timed sections: at 3 seconds:, after, at marker, repeat every
Pause, resume, seek, change speed, play in reverse and loop
Important events (like rewards) fire exactly once, even when players skip or seek
Reusable sequences you can nest and give parameters

Actors

Spawn any mob, player-looking actors with real skins (1.21.9+), or item/block/text displays
Actors are visible only to the scene's viewers
Move, walk with real pathfinding, rotate, look at things, follow keyframed paths
Attach actors to each other, rotate groups around a point, and scale them
Removed automatically when the scene ends

Visual effects

19 particle shapes, beams, lightning and emitters (spinning, pulsing, expanding)
22 ready-made presets with themeable colours
Per-player particle budgets, distance culling and quality that adapts to server load

Dialogue and choices

Typewriter or word-by-word text in chat, title, subtitle, action bar, boss bar or floating text
MiniMessage and & colour codes, typing sounds, manual advance
Choices through clickable chat, typed replies or an inventory menu
Per-player answers or votes, with timeouts, defaults and scene pausing

Multiplayer

Individual or shared playback
Players can join a scene that's already playing
Skip modes: individual, anyone, or vote

Player safety

Game mode, location and flight are always restored when a scene ends
Also restored after server crashes, disconnects, deaths and script reloads

Performance

One central scheduler that uses nothing when no scenes are playing
Resource limits for actors, effects and scenes
Built-in profiler; error messages include the script name and line

Requirements

Paper 1.21.4 or newer, including 26.x (1.21.0–1.21.3 are not supported)
Skript 2.16.0 or newer (tested on 2.16.2 and 2.17.0)
Java 21 for Paper 1.21.x, Java 25 for Paper 26.x
Player-looking actors need Minecraft 1.21.9 or newer
Spigot and Folia are not supported

Installation

Put SkCine-1.0.0.jar in your plugins folder next to Skript.
Restart the server.
Write a scene in a .sk file and load it with /sk reload <script>.

Commands
Maintenance only. Permission: skcine.admin (op by default).

Code:

/skcine version
/skcine info
/skcine capabilities
/skcine debug
/skcine profiler
/skcine health
/skcine help

Known limitations

No camera roll, FOV changes or shaders (the vanilla client can't do these)
Player-looking actors glide instead of playing a walking animation
No volume fades for sounds that are already playing (vanilla limit)

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Addon SkCine 1.0.0

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