Cutscene API is a mod that allows you to make cutscenes with camera movement and optional effects, and play them in-game in real time. It is intended to be used by map and mod makers to make their projects more beautiful.<\/p>\n
# Feature overview
\nThe thing that defines what a player sees is a **cutscene type,** or simply a **cutscene,** defined in a data pack. Cutscenes have a _length_ (in ticks), a _path_ for the camera, a list of _actions_ that a player is allowed to do when watching a cutscene, a _start_ and _end transition_, as well as some special _effects_. All of these are optional, but when combined, they allow for making beautiful cutscenes.<\/p>\n
You can find more details in the spoiler boxes below:<\/p>\n The player’s camera may follow a certain path during a cutscene. This path is defined by a set of segments, each of which can be either a simple line, a B\u00e9zier curve, a Catmull-Rom spline, a static point, or a special point, whose coordinates are defined by math functions.<\/p>\n The camera’s rotation is defined using the same kinds of segments, as well as a special one that lets you look at a specific point from where you are. The player doesn’t have to snap into a cutscene – you can specify a transition to make it look more beautiful. Currently implemented transitions are “smooth ease” that makes you smoothly enter or leave the path of a cutscene and “fade”, which fades the screen to a color (not necessarily one, or constant) and then starts or ends the cutscene. During a cutscene, you can prevent the player from moving, turning their head, breaking blocks, using items, taking damage, or make them a spectator so that mobs don’t target them. This is a bit unstable at the time. Besides a camera path, you may want the player to see some text or images in a cutscene. Effects allow you to do that. Currently implemented effects include “appearing text” that slowly appears over time, “triangle strip” that can be used to draw simple geometry with triangles, “rectangle” that draws a rectangle, as well as “texture blit”, which draws a texture on a specified position. ## Commands<\/p>\n `\/cutscene start `\/cutscene stop [player]` – stops a cutscene for a player<\/p>\n `\/cutscene preview set `\/cutscene preview hide` – hides a preview<\/p>\n ## See it yourself # Compatibility Most versions I release are typically backwards-compatible, especially format-wise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A mod for making cutscenes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_minecraft_slug":"cutscene-api","_minecraft_project_id":"R54NT4it","_minecraft_author":"thewinnt","_minecraft_license":"MIT","_minecraft_downloads":4566,"_minecraft_follows":21,"_minecraft_client_side":"required","_minecraft_server_side":"required","_minecraft_storage_type":"zip","_minecraft_archive_name":"cutscene-api.zip","_minecraft_size_bytes":36488152,"_minecraft_version_count":61,"_minecraft_updated_at":"2026-05-17T00:23:11.913240Z","_minecraft_date_created":"2024-06-20T01:15:10.614672Z","_minecraft_date_modified":"2025-03-20T19:23:40.172101Z","_minecraft_project_url":"https:\/\/modrinth.com\/mod\/cutscene-api","_minecraft_icon_attachment_id":0,"_minecraft_imported_at":"2026-06-02T23:28:01+00:00","_minecraft_import_hash":"8cb5a6e42cb273301c9210ff817eee7b","_minecraft_versions":"","_minecraft_links":"","_minecraft_gallery":"","_minecraft_api_metadata":""},"mod_category":[97,104,89,873,158,98,92],"mod_loader":[99,106,160,100],"minecraft_version":[59,36,94,102,62,37,73,74,38],"class_list":["post-53366","mod","type-mod","status-publish","hentry","mod_category-fabric","mod_category-forge","mod_category-game-mechanics","mod_category-library","mod_category-neoforge","mod_category-quilt","mod_category-utility","mod_loader-fabric","mod_loader-forge","mod_loader-neoforge","mod_loader-quilt","minecraft_version-1-20","minecraft_version-1-20-1","minecraft_version-1-20-4","minecraft_version-1-20-6","minecraft_version-1-21","minecraft_version-1-21-1","minecraft_version-1-21-2","minecraft_version-1-21-3","minecraft_version-1-21-4"],"yoast_head":"\nPath<\/summary>\n
\n<\/details>\nTransitions<\/summary>\n
\n<\/details>\nAction toggles<\/summary>\n
\n<\/details>\nEffects<\/summary>\n
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\nIn the source repository, there is folder named “Example Cutscenes”, which is a datapack with a bunch of cutscenes I use for testing out new features and that you can use to see what the mod has to offer. They’re a little weird sometimes, but they get the job done.<\/p>\n
\nI try to make the mod as compatible with other mods out there as possible. There should be no problems.<\/p>\n