HeadPulseSSC

HeadPulseSSC — Expressive Chat Animations & Stable Heads

This update expands message-driven animations and fixes head rendering in chat and the player list. Includes all changes from 1.5.7–1.5.8.

💬 Message-Driven Animations

• Heads react to messages: greetings trigger a friendly nod, while questions add a subtle tilt and turn.
• Speaking animation duration scales with message length.
• Consecutive messages from the same player maintain a continuous animation phase without repeating the pop-in.
• Reaction cooldowns prevent excessive movement during chat spam.

✨ Punctuation-Based Pauses & Accents

• Commas briefly soften the nodding before speech continues.
• Periods add a small finishing nod.
• Exclamation marks trigger a single, more expressive accent.
• Ellipses produce a gradual slowdown.
• Repeated punctuation is grouped: !!!!! does not increase animation intensity.
• Each message has a maximum of four punctuation events. Links, email addresses, numbers, and timestamps do not trigger unwanted pauses.

🔧 Rendering Fixes

• Chat and player-list heads now use an isolated, stationary preview instead of the live player model.
• Running, jumping, sneaking, attacking, swimming, and flying no longer carry over to the head preview.
• HeadPulseSSC’s own idle, cursor tracking, pop-in, and speaking animations remain intact.
• Removed automatic head shrinking and repositioning caused by armor or cosmetics.
• Hidden the torso, arms, and legs, and removed unnecessary equipment layers, capes, and held items from the preview.
• Helmets, head-slot items, and head cosmetics are retained. Toggling showHeadEquipment no longer changes the face scale.

⚙️ New Settings

• speechAnimations — enables or disables speaking animations.
• punctuationAnimations — controls punctuation-based pauses and accents independently of basic speaking motion.
• The obsolete cosmeticRoom and cosmeticHeadFit settings are no longer used. Existing configuration files remain compatible.

ℹ️ Important

Rendering now prioritizes a large, clearly visible face at a consistent scale. Oversized cosmetics may be clipped at the edges of the chat row or player-list slot, but they no longer push the head away or shrink it to fit.