Models

Controlling playback

Blockbench's own loop / hold / once comes across as authored. Everything else is a decision about your server rather than about the model, so it lives beside the piece:

chair:
  material: PAPER
  model: chair
  place:
    animations:
      spin:
        mode: loop      # loop | hold | once, overriding the .bbmodel
        speed: 0.5      # half the authored speed
        priority: 10    # wins when two animations claim one trigger
        blend: 0.25     # seconds to ease in and out of it

An animation nobody mentions plays exactly as authored.

What happens at the end#

hold is the one worth knowing. A door, a lid, a drawbridge and a portcullis are all animations that should stop where they finished — without it they spring shut the moment they finish opening, because a one-shot that runs out goes back to rest.

Speed#

speed: 0.5 is half as fast; 2 is twice.

It is here and not in a second Blockbench file because the same walk cycle is a stroll on one server and a sprint on another, and re-exporting a model to change its tempo is a bad trade.

Priority#

Matters once a model has more than one animation on the same trigger. Higher wins; equal falls back to the order they appear in the file.

Without it, the first claimant of a trigger wins and the second is unreachable — which is fine until you add a rare animation that should beat the common one.

Blend#

blend: 0.25 is the difference between a model that snaps between poses and one that moves.

A quarter of a second covers most things. It eases out as well as in — going back to rest is a transition too, so there is no separate setting for it.