Adding non-player skins to npc with citizens.

so I tried asking fullwall for this yet I still don't get any results with it.
he said that I can add the texture with the texture property to the gameprofile something which I already discovered. the problem I still have is getting the gameprofile from the npc.

my npc spawn method:

Code:

    public void spawnNpc(Location location, String name, int uniqueid,
            String skin) {
        NPCRegistry registry = CitizensAPI.getNPCRegistry();
        NPC npc = registry.createNPC(EntityType.PLAYER, name);
       
        //        npc.data().set(NPC.PLAYER_SKIN_UUID_METADATA,
//                NPCSkin.getNonPlayerProfile(skin).getName());
       
        //this is the main problem getting the profile
         npc.spawn(location);
         CitizensNPC cnpc = (CitizensNPC) npc;
         EntityHumanNPC.PlayerNPC np = (EntityHumanNPC.PlayerNPC)  cnpc.getEntity();
         GameProfile pro  =np.getProfile();
        
         //yet setting the skin seems easy
         String n = npcskin.SetUrlBasedSkin(np.getProfile(), "guitargun");
         npc.data().set(NPC.PLAYER_SKIN_TEXTURE_PROPERTIES_METADATA, n);
         UUID npcuuid = npc.getUniqueId();

        spawnlocation.put(npcuuid, location);
        npclocation.put(npcuuid, location);
        if (uniqueid != -1) {
            uniquenpcid.put(uniqueid, npcuuid);
        } else {
            int id = 0;
            while (uniquenpcid.containsKey(id)) {
                id++;
            }
            uniquenpcid.put(id, npcuuid);
        }

        npchear(npcuuid);

    }

my skin set method:

Code:

    private  String returnUrl(String name){
        switch(name){
        case "dawn_nl":
            return "https://i.imgur.com/wQg8efk.png";
        case "guitargun":
            return "https://i.imgur.com/dTmFuhw.png";
        default:
            return null;
        }
    }
   
    public  String  SetUrlBasedSkin(GameProfile prof, String name){
        String url = returnUrl(name);
        PropertyMap pm = prof.getProperties();
       
        if(pm == null){
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Profile doesn't contain a property map");
        }
        byte[] encoded =  Base64Coder.encodeString("{textures:{SKIN:{url:\"" + url + "\"}}}").getBytes();
        pm.put("textures", new Property("textures", new String(encoded)));
        return url;
    }

and yes I tested if the url from the string is not null

 

@guitargun, sorry. Citizens clearly states in their wiki that is impossible to change the skin of a player because the skin is not handled by Bukkit, it is handled by the client and the client alone.

 

Also please fix your project to follow the naming conventions

 

@Tecno_Wizard yet you can make a npc which skin differs from the name you put in.

 

@guitargun The skin and the name of a player and NPC can be changed and do not need to match, but the skin must be an actual player's skin.

 

Hey, do u know how to change the skin, casue I have no idea how to do it. I tried /npc skin, but it saids that the command doesn't exsit