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toxicity188/BetterModel ★ 353 92 APPLICATION

BetterModel is a server-side Minecraft model rendering engine for Java Edition, distributed as a Bukkit/Paper/Spigot plugin, a Fabric mod, and Maven-published API artifacts. In production it loads Blockbench .bbmodel files at runtime, converts geometry, UVs, and animations into Minecraft item-model JSON and textures, generates or merges resource packs, and streams display-entity packets to clients so animated models can be attached to entities, players, dummies, and mounts. Beyond rendering, it provides public APIs for trackers, hitboxes, nametags, player-skin models, custom armor, event dispatch, scheduling, and third-party integrations with MythicMobs, Citizens, SkinsRestorer, and Nexo. The architecture is a multi-module Gradle build: a platform-independent API module, shared core implementation, Bukkit/Paper/Spigot and Fabric platform bindings, and eight NMS version adapters covering Minecraft 1.21.4 through 26.3. The core data flow is `.bbmodel` JSON -> raw model records -> blueprints -> renderer/rendered bones -> item-display transformations -> packet bundling and resource-pack output. The code is modern, actively maintained, and deliberately designed for high-traffic Paper servers, using Kotlin/Java interop, Adventure, cloud commands, Caffeine, fastutil, JOML, and Paperweight/Fabric Loom tooling. Main strengths are the clean platform abstraction, the public API surface, the packet-bundling and resource-pack generation machinery, and the broad feature set. Main weaknesses are the heavy copy-paste across NMS version modules, a visible lack of automated tests, incomplete Fabric features in places, and heavy reliance on reflection and version-specific internals. Overall this is a solid, professional Minecraft engine implementation with some reusable API-level utilities, but the NMS layer would benefit from generated or shared code to reduce drift risk.

RATING: 7.6/10 MAINT: active DRIFT: low
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