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

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 that 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

Installation

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

Commands

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

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)

Support

Found a bug or have a suggestion? Post in the discussion tab and include your Paper version, Skript version, and the output of /skcine health.

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