HeadPulseSSC

## HeadPulseSSC — Expressive Chat Animations & Stable Heads This update expands message-driven animations and fixes head rendering in chat and the player list. Includes all changes from **1.5.7–1.5.8**. ### 💬 Message-Driven Animations - Heads react to messages: greetings trigger a friendly nod, while questions add a subtle tilt and turn. - Speaking animation duration scales with message length. - Consecutive messages from the same player maintain a continuous animation phase without repeating the pop-in. - Reaction cooldowns prevent excessive movement during chat spam. ### ✨ Punctuation-Based Pauses & Accents - **Commas** briefly soften the nodding before speech continues. - **Periods** add a small finishing nod. - **Exclamation marks** trigger a single, more expressive accent. - **Ellipses** produce a gradual slowdown. - Repeated punctuation is grouped: `!!!!!` does not increase animation intensity. - Each message has a maximum of four punctuation events. Links, email addresses, numbers, and timestamps do not trigger unwanted pauses. ### 🔧 Rendering Fixes - Chat and player-list heads now use an isolated, stationary preview instead of the live player model. - Running, jumping, sneaking, attacking, swimming, and flying no longer carry over to the head preview. - HeadPulseSSC’s own idle, cursor tracking, pop-in, and speaking animations remain intact. - Removed automatic head shrinking and repositioning caused by armor or cosmetics. - Hidden the torso, arms, and legs, and removed unnecessary equipment layers, capes, and held items from the preview. - Helmets, head-slot items, and head cosmetics are retained. Toggling `showHeadEquipment` no longer changes the face scale. ### ⚙️ New Settings - `speechAnimations` — enables or disables speaking animations. - `punctuationAnimations` — controls punctuation-based pauses and accents independently of basic speaking motion. - The obsolete `cosmeticRoom` and `cosmeticHeadFit` settings are no longer used. Existing configuration files remain compatible. ### ℹ️ Important Rendering now prioritizes a **large, clearly visible face at a consistent scale**. Oversized cosmetics may be clipped at the edges of the chat row or player-list slot, but they no longer push the head away or shrink it to fit.

Support for the Essential Mod has been made, now things from there are displayed on the heads - Chat + Tab-List of players. 

HeadPulseSSC gives players a more dynamic and personalized interface by replacing flat icons with real 3D player heads — while keeping the familiar Minecraft look and feel.