WaveyElytra

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About

WaveyElytra brings your elytra to life. Instead of flat, motionless wings, the mod renders a three-dimensional model of the same vanilla shape and gives it physics. On the ground the wings sway like a cape in the wind, and in flight they behave like a falcon's wings: they stay firm, flap when you speed up and tuck in against the body when you dive.

The silhouette, size, texture and vanilla opening animation are kept: vanilla and custom elytra textures, capes used as elytra, dyes and the enchantment glint all work.

Customize the look and behavior of the wings using the in-game config screen, accessible via the mod list.

Since WaveyElytra is purely visual and fully client-side, it works on any server without requiring installation server-side.

Features

3D Model

• The wing is extruded one pixel deep from its texture, like items held in hand: every pixel of the texture becomes a tiny cube
• Every opaque pixel on the edge has side faces, so the wing is visible from the side instead of being a thin panel
• The shoulders and the inner edge of the wing are drawn just like on the vanilla texture
• The shape comes from the texture itself, so custom elytra and profile capes render without holes along the edges

On the Ground

• The wings behave like a cape in the wind: the faster you move, the further back they lean
• While standing, the wings sway gently in gusts of wind, and waves run along them while walking and sprinting
• The wings spread apart and never merge into a single piece
• After you stop, the wings settle down smoothly, with inertia
• While crouching, the wings lie along the bent back

In Flight

• The wings are rigid, with no waves: only the whole wing moves
• In level flight they are spread out and tremble slightly
• When boosting with a firework they make a few quick flaps
• They flap on sharp turns
• In a dive they tuck in against the body and sweep back, but never cross each other
• All transitions are smooth

Helicopter Mode

• In flight the wings meet in the middle of the back and spin like a rotor
• The faster you fly, the faster the rotor spins
• After landing the wings make a few more turns, gradually slowing down, and return to their place
• Rotor sound, which can be turned off separately

Settings

• Turn the mod on and off: when disabled, the vanilla elytra come back
• Helicopter mode and helicopter sound
• Wing size
• Stiffness, weight, air drag, flutter and maximum bend of the wings
• Number of wing segments
• Simulation range and simplification range for other players