Smooth Screens

Smooth Screens animates every container screen as it opens and closes. includes modded containers too.

Features

• Customise the direction: Make it come from all directions, even fade in and out!
• • Pick the speed: Instant, Snappy, Smooth, Relaxed, or Customise it yourself!
• Six easing curves, from linear to a little bounce.
• Settings screen with a live preview. Preview your settings in the customisation menu!
• Clicks work during the animation. Click a slot while the screen is still moving and you get the slot you see.
• Closing animates too. Has a closing animation too! can be different from opening.
• No tooltip glitches. Tooltips are hidden while screen is moving to prevent glitches.
• Client side only. does not require a server-side installation.

Works well with

• Smooth Swapping. It animates items moving between slots. Smooth Screens animates the screen. Both load together without conflicts, and every Smooth Screens test passes with Smooth Swapping installed.

Configuration

Open the settings from Mod Menu, or bind a key under Controls > Smooth Screens (it's unbound by default). Changes save instantly. Advanced users can also edit config/smoothscreens.json, for example to exclude specific screens by class name.

Requirements

Fabric Loader and Fabric API. Mod Menu is optional.

Notes

• Only opening a container from the game animates. Switching directly between screens doesn't, so tab-switching mods don't flicker.
• Built for 26.3's new GUI renderer from scratch. It isn't a port of an older mod.

Inspired by Flow and Bedrock Inventory Animations, decided to make my own version of it.

This is an independent MIT-licensed implementation.