less of an issue and more a general question, when i press the B key to open the emote wheel, i dont get any emotes despite having them in my emote folder, instead, just the message Action wheel has no active page!
any way to fix this?

i figured it out, apologies

Please share logs, and .minecraft/config/emotecraft.json

not sure how to share logs, however here's the. json file and an image of what im getting

{
"config_version": 4,
"loadbuiltin": true,
"quark": false,
"dark": false,
"oldChooseWheel": false,
"perspective": true,
"default3rdPersonFront": false,
"showicon": true,
"enableNSFW": false,
"debug": true,
"validate": false,
"validationThreshold": 8.0,
"emotesFolderOnLogicalServer": false,
"emotesDirectory": "emotes",
"autoFixEmoteStop": true,
"alwaysValidateEmote": false,
"playersafety": true,
"stopthreshold": 0.04,
"yratio": 0.75,
"showHiddenConfig": false,
"neverRemoveBadIcon": false,
"exportBuiltin": false,
"hideWarning": false,
"fastmenu": {},
"keys": {}
}

Action wheel has no active page! does not belong to Emotecraft, this appears to be something else.
How-to get logs