Why not have both, the animation only activates when you are right up next to?
@anon34275467 I am referring interaction animations not the emotes. There are a few more dev blog posts that show them, I just didn’t feel like digging them all up. I know some of them were reused for emotes, but the point I was getting as was when your player is actually doing something, not just when you want to type it out.
Like this one that shows there are animations for when trading with another player.
And this one when you are interacting with a shop stand.
Which could also be another one that only activates the animation when you are right next to. I think most of us do when we see signs next to or on the shop stand.