Plugin support

Citizens

With Citizens installed, an NPC can wear one of your models and keep it through a chunk unloading, a respawn, /npc reload and a server restart.

Look at the NPC and run:

/rp bind mypack:shopkeeper

There is no trait to add by hand and nothing to configure. /rp unbind, looking at the NPC, takes the model off for good.

Player-shaped NPCs need the .others node

Most Citizens NPCs are player entities, so binding one counts as putting a model on another player and needs rpengine.bind.others (and rpengine.unbind.others to take it off) as well as rpengine.bind. Ops have both. See Permissions.

What the NPC keeps#

Everything: its skin, name, pathing, commands, traits and identity. RP Engine hides the normal body and shows the model instead; take the model off and the NPC is exactly what it was. Binding adds an rpmodel trait to the NPC, which Citizens saves, and that is how the model comes back after every respawn.

Animating one#

From your own plugin, through the API:

models.animate(npc.getEntity(), "wave");

Citizens has no skill system to trigger animations from, so deciding when an NPC waves is up to your plugin.