-- thanks for the support from tenplus1, kaeza and Shara <3
-- 
-- this is a kind of pre-version of the Illuna skinmod.
-- it is supposed to work together with a skinserver later.
-- since it is very basic and the base kindly rewritten by tenplus1,
-- i didn't yet decide about any license and so on.

-- get mod textures path
local path = minetest.get_modpath("playerskins") .. "/textures/"
 
-- this function runs every time player joins game
minetest.register_on_joinplayer(function(player)
 
    -- get player name from player object
    local name = player:get_player_name()

    -- make name lower case and add .png extension
    name = name:lower() .. ".png"
 
    -- set skin to default
    local skin = "character.png"
 
    -- check if texture exists and set new skin
    local f = io.open(path .. name, "r")
    if f then
        skin = name -- set new skin name
        f:close() -- close file

        -- apply player texture
        minetest.after(1, function()
            if minetest.get_modpath("3d_armor") then
                -- FIXME: after function is a placeholder to validate function
                minetest.after(0, function(player)
                    if not player then
                        return
                    end
                    local name = player:get_player_name()
                    armor.textures[player:get_player_name()].skin = skin
                    armor:set_player_armor(player)
                end, player)
               else
                player:set_properties({
                textures = {skin},
            })
        end
    end)
    end
end)