Hello there!

 

I'm making a mod that allows people to customize player-like entities. I want them to be able to pick a skin (like players format skin) from my mod's config directory. Also I want the skins to be animated (cycle through the skins something like obfuscated text in minecraft).

 

One thing I noticed about texture "loading" for entities is that you can only use ResourceLocation instances to point out where the texture is located via Render#getEntityTexture or so. Which is reduces the scope of textures location only to current classpath (currently loaded jars).

 

So, the question is: How can I load texture using absolute path? Or is it even possible with minecraft's architecture?

 

Thank you for attention!

Wow, this is actually a clever idea! Thanks, I'll try it out!

You can create your own implementation of IResourcePack (or use an existing one) and stuff it into Minecraft#defaultResourcePacks using reflection and it will be queried for resources as well.

 

Yes, that totally worked thank you very much!

If you're going to that much trouble, then you might even be able to implement it as a URI-based resource loader that would copy in files from a remote Internet server that you control. Then you could update your skins at home, and your players would get the new versions without updating their mods. Such a setup might also keep the mod installation simple for your players.

 

I'd be interested to see what you end up with, if you care to share later.

If you're going to that much trouble, then you might even be able to implement it as a URI-based resource loader that would copy in files from a remote Internet server that you control.

 

I think it would be overkill to make skins via internet for my mod. All I want to do is simply add ability to change skins (plainly putting .png files in the config folder).

 

If I'll implement it via internet, then I'll have to write a website (that would allow users to upload their skins) and REST API (for browsing and downloading skins). That's seems like overkill to me, but it also will add complexity to mod usage (as you'll have to upload skin first, and then find it in the game via GUI).

 

It will only make sense if I'll implement it for some other existent service like skindex. Hm, good idea, I'll look into that.

http://www.minecraftskins.com/