Recording cutscenes

/ns start <name> <seconds>

Records your position and view direction for <seconds> (1-300). Needs nonscene.start.

1. A countdown of settings.countdown-seconds (default 3) runs in chat.
2. Recording starts. A boss bar shows the progress (cutscene.creation.progress-bar).
3. When the time is up the cutscene is saved and Cutscene <name> recorded successfully with N frames is shown.

/ns stop cancels the countdown or the recording, nothing is saved.

Names

Cutscene names may contain only letters, digits, _ and -, up to 64 characters. Names are case-insensitive: Intro and intro are the same cutscene, but the original spelling is kept for display.

Frame rate

cutscene.recording.capture-interval-ticks sets how often a frame is captured: 1 is 20 frames per second, 2 is 10, and so on. Playback is always smooth regardless, because the camera follows a spline through the frames and is updated at cutscene.playback.update-rate (default 60 Hz). A lower capture rate gives smaller cutscenes and a calmer path, a higher one keeps every small movement.

Tips

• Fly in spectator mode so blocks don’t get in the way.
• Everything you do is replayed, including shaky mouse movement. If a part looks rough, open the cutscene in the keyframe editor: it reduces the recording to keyframes and smooths it out.
• A cutscene may cross worlds, every frame stores its world.
• /ns showpath <name> draws the path with particles for 30 seconds so you can check it without watching it. The particles are visible to every player nearby. /ns stop hides them early. See settings.path-visualization in Configuration.