[Mod] Different textures for players [player_textures]

[moli]

Dear all. I can not fine any guide for the layout of the texture in the player_<name>.png bitmap. Please help me by pointing me to some guide or documentation. Thanks!

[PilzAdam]

Dear all. I can not fine any guide for the layout of the texture in the player_<name>.png bitmap. Please help me by pointing me to some guide or documentation. Thanks!

Its the same as Minecraft's format, Im sure youll find information about that.

[moli]

Dear all. I can not fine any guide for the layout of the texture in the player_<name>.png bitmap. Please help me by pointing me to some guide or documentation. Thanks!

Its the same as Minecraft's format, Im sure youll find information about that.

Thank you! Sorry that it did not occur to me to check that out. Thanks for the reply and for the mod.

[ZachyGames]

I cant load the mod!!!!!!!!!!!

[CraigyDavi]

I cant load the mod!!!!!!!!!!!

What is the error? In debug.txt.

[4aiman]

I suggest using skins mod instead of this one. That one is up-to-date for 0.4.8 -> now at least.

[PilzAdam]

I suggest using skins mod instead of this one. That one is up-to-date for 0.4.8 -> now at least.

Eh, my mod is totally up to date.

[4aiman]

Eh.. your mod has no GUI ;p

[xcrow]

The mod works fine!
Is exactly what I want to show for playing with my kids, they will love it!

Only an observation: there are certain entities of "MobF" that don´t show a texture ("Unknown"), you know what I can do for solve this? ('LuaEntity name: "mob_archer:archer" not defined' says one of the messages)

But... obviusly, my kids will choose the skins over the entities!!

[PilzAdam]

Only an observation: there are certain entities of "MobF" that don´t show a texture ("Unknown"), you know what I can do for solve this? ('LuaEntity name: "mob_archer:archer" not defined' says one of the messages)

This is completly unrelated to this mod. Maybe ask in the mobf topic how to fix that.

[rommiekerova]

I suggest using skins mod instead of this one. That one is up-to-date for 0.4.8 -> now at least.

This mod works for 4.8 and should work for anything higher so long as the character model and mapping stays constant.

If either of those changes, I'm sure PilzAdam will create a new version which works for it.

Eh.. your mod has no GUI ;p

It doesn't need one. Its not the skins mod. This one adds custom textures for each player. Not a database of them.

[ak399g]

Could this be rewritten as a chat command (perhaps "/personal_texture") that applies the skin later?
I'm trying to allow specific skins for certain players while incorporating Zeg9's database.

[gumangel]

23:02:09: ERROR[main]: ServerError: ...test\minetest-0.4.10-64bit\bin\..\mods\textures\init.lua:2: attempt to concatenate a nil value
23:02:09: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
23:02:09: ERROR[main]: ...test\minetest-0.4.10-64bit\bin\..\mods\textures\init.lua:2: in function <...test\minetest-0.4.10-64bit\bin\..\mods\textures\init.lua:1>
23:02:09: ERROR[main]: ...t\minetest-0.4.10-64bit\bin\..\builtin\game\register.lua:348: in function <...t\minetest-0.4.10-64bit\bin\..\builtin\game\register.lua:336>
can anyone help me?

[Napiophelios]

rename the mod's folder to: player_textures

[gumangel]

rename the mod's folder to: player_textures

thank you really much!

[pinkysnow]

I have patched the code to accept new format of mc skins!

Patch here

[Samson1]

This mod works a treat!


It's just a pity Minetest does not support MC version 1.8+ skins :\

[rgh]

Could anyone direct me to some image files I could try out for this mod? The example
player_PilzAdam.png
doesn't correctly display for me. I've also tried taking a copy of
minetest\games\minetest_game\mods\default\models\character.png
changing it slightly & suitably renaming. That doesn't work either.

I'm using minetest 0.4.14. Is the image file that version uses still compatible with this mod?

In fact, the server is giving an error:
ERROR[Main]: generateImage(): Could not load image "player_personX.png" while building texture.

[rgh]

Problem solved: server needed a restart

[Lone_Wolf]

Awesome!

[holli]

Hi there,

this is my first post in this forum, yay! \o/ ...and I'm starting with a boon question: >.>

I read that somewhere exists a database for custom user skins for minetest in the internet. Mentioned here:
viewtopic.php?id=4497

The thread talks about this site: http://minetest.fensta.bplaced.net. I wonder that I cannot find any line in the "init.lua" script of this mod, that shows me that this mod search a player skin file on this site. It only search the local folder. Is it possible to provide all these player skins on a ftp site, maybe like "ftp://ftp.minetest.net/player_textures/player_<player name>.png" so the script can easily find them and cache this file in the local dir of this mod?
On the other hand, there are many minecraft skin/wallpaper editor websites witch are able to load all the player skins from the minecraft database. Could it be possible that this lua script also search the minecraft database, so someone, who usually plays minecraft (eg my son *hehe*) gets his skin in minetest. That would blow his mind! XD

It's easy for you to see that I'm a boon in lua programming, because I don't know if it's possible to access (and download) some internet content. But if it's possible, why do not use the database mentioned above to automatically search, download and store the custom skins?

Sorry for my poor english.

Greetz,

Holli

[dawgdoc]

...so someone, who usually plays minecraft (eg my son *hehe*) gets his skin in minetest. That would blow his mind! XD

You can use the converter tool at The Pixel Shadow to make a Minecraft skin usable in Minetest.

EDIT: You can use this in singleplayer worlds. Rename the skin to character.png and place it in

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/usr/share/minetest/games/minetest_game/mods/default/models

At least that is where you place the file in LinuxMint along with Ubuntu and other distros based on it.
To use it in servers you would need to contact the server admin.

[holli]

Hi dawgdoc,

thanks for your answer. I am using already a tool to convert MC skins to MT skins called "the gimp" and I am the admin of my own server. ;-) And yes, it runs on lubuntu 16.04.4 amdx64 LTS. :-D

But my question is, it is possible to extend the mod so that it automatically search the database on the site mentioned above (http://minetest.fensta.bplaced.net), download the skin file automatically and use it as custom player skin.
The thing with the ftp server was only an idea for easy file access...

Greetz,

Holli

EDIT: Using a MC2MT cmdline skin converter tool is a fine Idea to access and use MC skins in MT! ;-D

[Lone_Wolf]

Fastest way to convert a skin to or from MT: https://godly.github.io/minetest-skin-converter/

[holli]

Hi Lone_Wolf,

the online skin converter works fine. Many thanks for that. Do you know any cmd line program or script ([ba]sh/python/whatever) to this job in a "mc2mt_convrt -i mc_player_xyz.png -o player_xyz.png" way?

Thanks,

Holli