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Cinematics brings Hollywood-style camera movements to your Minecraft server. Record a camera path by walking through your world, then replay it as a smooth cinematic transition for any player — perfect for server trailers, event intros, and immersive story moments.

Installation

Download the JAR and drop it into your server’s plugins folder to get started in minutes.

Quickstart

Record your first cinematic and play it back with two simple commands.

Command Reference

Full reference for every /cinematic subcommand and its permission nodes.

Configuration

Understand the plugin settings and customise in-game messages.

What Cinematics Does

1

Record a camera path

Use /cinematic record <name> to start capturing your movement. Walk, look around, and stop recording when you’re happy with the path. The recording is saved to disk automatically.
2

Review and manage recordings

List all saved recordings with /cinematic list, inspect frame count and file size with /cinematic info <name>, and remove unwanted takes with /cinematic delete <name>.
3

Play it back

Run /cinematic play <name> to replay the camera path as a smooth cinematic for the executing player. The transition runs frame by frame exactly as recorded.

Key Features

  • In-game recording — capture camera paths without any external tooling
  • Smooth playback — transitions replay frame-by-frame for a fluid cinematic feel
  • Per-recording management — list, inspect, and delete individual recordings
  • Permission-gated access — all commands sit behind cinematics.command.cinematic
  • Internationalisation — ships with English and German message bundles out of the box
  • Folia compatible — works on both Paper and Folia server software
  • Paper 1.21+ — built against the modern Paper API with Java 21
Cinematics is in early development (v0.1.0). The recording and playback implementation is actively being built — watch the GitHub repository for release announcements.

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