Animations#

Clothing is judged in motion, not in the standing pose. A coat that reads perfectly on a standing ped can fold through the leg the moment it walks, and you will not see that until something moves.

The tool covers this in two places: playing the game's own animations on the previewed ped, and building your own clip from scratch and exporting a .ycd your server can play.

Playing a move in the preview#

Click the person icon on the 3D preview bar (Ped animation — walk / run / jump…). The Animation panel opens in three layers, in the order you reach for them.

The transport bar#

Pinned to the top of the panel, so it never scrolls away under a long list:

• Enable animation turns playback on or off, and the bar names what is playing (or Off).
• Play / Pause.
• The loop button: Looping — click to play once or Playing once — click to loop.
• Speed: 0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5 or 2 times normal speed, so you can slow a walk down to catch the frame where a hem clips through.

Built-in moves#

Below the bar, the moves are icon tiles on three shelves:

Click a tile to play it. The moves are free.

Any game clip#

Any game clip, marked Premium, is the advanced path. It is folded away by default, and the panel remembers whether you left it open. Inside:

• Search every game clip looks through every clip in the game's own dictionaries, by the name the game knows it by (for example business). A long result shows the first matches; type more to narrow it down.
• Recent lists the clips you played lately.
• Your clips lists clip dictionaries you added yourself. Add a .ycd… adds one; it stays in the list between runs, and its row's button removes it.

The foot of the panel counts the moves and clips found in your game.

Library peds and props#

• On a Ped Library ped, animations play on the ped's own skeleton. New in 2.0.8.
• Props stay on the head or wrist in the animated preview, even before the base ped is extracted. New in 2.0.8.

The Animation Creator#

Pose a ped frame by frame and export a .ycd. Open it from the app menu — Animations….

Starting#

Only one animation is open at a time. If the creator is already working on something else, finish there first.

Posing#

Two tools, and they are the whole rig:

• Rotate (R) turns the grabbed bone. Hold Shift to snap to 5°. Hold Alt to turn a bone without dragging the rest of the limb with it.
• Move (G) pulls an arm or a leg's end through IK — you drag the hand, and the elbow and shoulder follow.

The camera behaves exactly as it does everywhere else in the app, so orbiting to check a pose costs you nothing.

The gizmo axes read Pitch · X, Yaw · Y, Roll · Z.

Controller layers#

The rig is grouped into layers so you are not fighting a hundred controls at once: Torso, Head & neck, Left/Right arm, Left/Right hand, Left/Right leg, Face, and IK handles.

Click a layer chip to show or hide it. Alt-click shows only that one.

The timeline#

Pick a bone, rotate it, and key it at the current frame. A bone with no keyframes stays at the bind pose.

• Frames and FPS set the clip's length and rate.
• Smooth new keys eases in and out as you go; Smooth every key in the clip and Constant speed on every key apply to the whole thing.
• Per-key easing: Linear, Ease in, Ease out, Ease in-out.
• Loop plays it round.
• Right-click a key to delete it, copy a pose to another frame, or clear every key on a bone.

Templates#

The library ships Gestures, Two people, Showing a garment, and whatever you save under Saved by you.

A template is either This pose or the Whole clip. Stamp puts a saved pose on the current frame; Start from this begins a new animation from it. Templates that ship with the app cannot be deleted.

Props#

Search Anything in the game to pull an object out of your GTA V files — Bags & boxes, Drinks, Flowers & plants, Food, Money, Phones & tech, Smoking, Tools, Weapons. You can also use the ped's own prop slots (hats, glasses, watches), the prop items in the open project, or Add your own model… as a .ydd.

Place it with X / Y / Z and Pitch / Yaw / Roll, and pick which slot it is worn on.

Two actors#

Add a second person turns the timeline into a Scene with Actor A and Actor B, and Where they stand places them relative to each other. Export writes a clip per actor.

Exporting#

Export .ycd bakes the clip at 30 fps. Two forms:

• As a .ycd only — the clip dictionary on its own.
• As a FiveM resource — a ready-to-drop resource folder around it.

Before it writes, the tool tells you what is incomplete rather than shipping it quietly:

Importing a clip that animates fingers, face or cloth keeps those tracks even though the posable rig does not show them, so a round trip does not quietly throw them away.

If you open an animation posed on a different ped than the one loaded, the tool says so. It still opens.

Related pages#

• 3D Preview — the viewport the moves play in.
• Cloth simulation — a .yld garment simulates while the animation runs, which is the real test of a coat.
• Ped Library — preview on other peds and their own skeletons.
• Appearance Menu — the standing pose when nothing is playing.
• Scene Creator