3D model
Creating the animated model (idle animation)
To create the models I use BlockBench, it's very easy to use and fast. BlockBench tutorials are available on YouTube.
You have to make sure to create your model as Java Block/Item model! Don't use Bedrock Model or Entity model!
Creating a very simple idle animation
For example I created this model, it's made of some cubes as you can see.
Now we want to animate it! For example I want to make it float up and down.
1.Save the current model in a temporary folder (anywhere on your PC)
Ok I saved it as 1.json inside the idle folder. This is the first frame of the animation.
**2.**Return to BlockBench and select all pressing CTRL+A
Hold left mouse button while cliking on the GREEN arrow, hold CTRL and move the mouse up a little bit
3.Save the file again but change the name to 2.json
**4.**Do the same thing 3 times (move the mob a little bit up) and save the file again increasing the number in its file name.
**5.**Now we have finished creating the needed frames for our animation. Open this website
**6.**Now click on the icon to load our json frames
**7.**Click on "Choose files..." and select your json files and the png texture
**8.**Click on LOAD
9.Click the second icon and drag and drop the 4 files to the bottom line
**10.**You should have them like that
11.Drag and drop them again but in reverse (3-2, I skipped 1 and 4 because they would be useless for the animation)
**12.**Press the play button (on the bottom left) to preview the animation
![](https://itemsadder.devs.beer/~gitbook/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FzslbD0G.gif&width=768&dpr=4&quality=100&sign=9bebf989&sv=1)
13. Press "Export" button (top right of the screen) and configure it like in the screenshot, then press "Export" again.
**14.**Now you will have a zip file with the animation, download it and open it.
15.Extract the zip inside your ItemsAdder folder contents\myitems\resourcepack\
**16.**Set your mob configuration like this, to use the idle animation and not the stuck one: "mob/soul/idle"
**17.**Use the command /iazip
(if you're using external-host please follow the tutorialcarefully)
**18.**spawn the mob using /iasummon soul
![](https://itemsadder.devs.beer/~gitbook/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F1tljgbv.gif&width=768&dpr=4&quality=100&sign=1e410e9b&sv=1)
Do not open the animated model (exported from the website) with BlockBench or any other editing program or it will probably break and stop working.
You can delete the 1-2-3-4.json files, you don't need them anymore (but you can backup them for future usage), you only need the idle.json file and the png+mcmeta files which are the animated files.
More advanced animations:
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