Player skin

There are three ways of defining a player skin:

• Setting your player UUID (see here) to their Mojang UUID, clients by default retrieve the skin based on this value. This is done automatically by MojangAuth.init()

• Changing it in the PlayerSkinInitEvent event

• Using the method Player#setSkin(PlayerSkin)

How to retrieve skin data from Mojang

Using PlayerSkin methods

PlayerSkin offers some utils methods to retrieve a skin using simple information such as a Mojang UUID or a Minecraft username

Retrieve texture value & signature manually

Most of what I will say is described here:

You firstly need to get your Mojang UUID, which can be done by a request based on your username:

Then, after getting your UUID:

You'll get here both the texture value and the signature. Those values are used to create a PlayerSkin.

PlayerSkinInitEvent

The event is called at the player connection and is used to define the skin to send to the player the first time. It is as simple as

Player#setSkin