# DanseAvecLaStare **Paper 1.21.x** plugin that displays **animated 3D dancers** on your server, powered by [ModelEngine 4](https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/authors/ticxo.788778/). Make players dance with their own skin, or place persistent static dancers (NPCs) to decorate an area, a nightclub, an event, a party... Originally developed for the [TomorrowCraft](https://tomorrowcraft.fr/) server. > ⚠️ **Required dependency**: this plugin requires [ModelEngine 4.0.9](https://mythiccraft.io/index.php?resources/model-engine%E2%80%94ultimate-entity-model-manager-1-19-4-26-2.1213/product-download~~~~) > installed on the server, as well as the resource pack generated by ModelEngine added to > your own resource pack's configuration. Without ModelEngine, the plugin cannot function. > > ⚠️ **Incompatible with shaders**: models animated via ModelEngine do not display > correctly (or at all) on clients using a shader pack. This is not a limitation of the > plugin itself but of how ModelEngine renders models client-side. ## ✨ Features - **Player dance** — trigger a dance animation on yourself or another player, using their real skin (fetched via the Mojang API, cached to avoid repeated calls). - **Static dancers (NPCs)** — create persistent dancers, automatically saved and restored on server restart. Move, resize, rename, highlight. - **Skin cache** — pre-register reusable skins under an alias, without a new call to the Mojang API each time it's applied. - **Choreographies** — synchronize multiple static dancers as a group for coordinated animations. - **Playlists** — schedule sequences of dance styles (looping or one-shot), applicable to a player, a dancer, or an entire group. - **In-game menus** — full interface for players (styles, preview) and for staff (NPC management, playlists, choreographies, skin cache). - **Fine-grained permissions** — one permission node per dance style, per feature, and per role (player / DJ / staff / admin), designed for LuckPerms. - **Performant at scale** — all static dancers and choreography groups share a single global task (instead of one task per dancer): the number of scheduled tasks stays constant regardless of the number of NPCs. ## 🎮 Main commands | Command | Description | |---|---| | `/danse

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