Spyro the Dragon (Custom Player Model)

My rendition of Spyro the Dragon, from the games of the same name. This is one I'd spent a long time searching online and waiting for as a Custom Player Model after hearing about the CPM mod, and found nothing I could download for my game, much to my disappointment. So, I learned how to use CPM and BlockBench and created my own over the last couple months.


The model detail is somewhat above that of standard Minecraft skins, but not ultra high res or anything. I think it's believable at least. I'm new to modeling mostly; this is my first model of any type of character for a game. I used BlockBench for most of the modeling and the in-game Custom Player Models editor for animations. Unfortunately, some animations are a bit messed up; not sure what to do about them (list below).

Installation

Extract the .zip file to your Minecraft installation folder (~/.minecraft or %UserProfile%\.minecraft by default). You can delete Spyro_FootprintParticle.zip from resourcepacks if not using Footprint Particle mod (see below).


To use this you can use the Custom Player Models mod and load it with the Gestures menu (G by default), by choosing Models in the bottom left corner of the screen and then Spyro from the list on the left, click apply, and it should load for you. There is a "Spyro-NewWalk.cpm" and a "Spyro-OldWalk.cpm" file in the zip. The old walk version has the default walk animation like the Spyro games had where he bounds/skips around. The new walk animation is more similar to when walking slowly with the analog stick in the Spyro games, and ideally if you have a joystick/controller and Controlify/similar mod, you can use the Spyro-NewWalk.cpm model and the AutoHotkey script in the zip file (directions included) to control walking animation based on joystick walk speed. Also, you may want to delete the old/new walk version model file you are not using to avoid confusion selecting in-game (they will both show up as "Spyro").

Animations Supported

(all are for both left and right hands if applicable)


(he also just holds the right hand item in his mouth; the left is based on his actual left hand since I didn't know what else to do for it)

Recommended Mods (at least on NeoForge 1.21.1, and probably others)

• Footprint Particle—Adds footprints when in snow, wet conditions, etc. [​see above second section of Installation] (Fabric/legacy Forge only but works for me in Sinytra Connector)
• Shoulder Surfing Reloaded—Over the shoulder/adjustable third person camera perspective
• First Person Model—Shows your body in first person perspective (go to Mods menu, First Person mod settings, set all X offsets to 40)
• Do A Barrel Roll—Allows rolling sideways when flying with elytra
• Elytra Drag—Allows pressing the sneak key to slow you down flying with elytra (couldn't figure out how to make a different animation for this)
• Controlify—Allows use of a controller with the game (works with my AutoHotkey script to control fast/slow walk animation)
• Simple Voice Chat & CPM Voice Chat compatibility patch—Voice chat mod which works with CPM talking animation
• Real Camera?! [​can't exactly figure out how to make it work with this one so far due to its interface]—(Sorta recommended for now/testing) Should allow repositioning (namely, lowering) the first person camera to match his eye height (let me know if you figure out how to make this work)