Please Fix the textures/rotation of First Person Arm

Greetings,

I'm new to Minetest, I and a friend tested the games on Minetest and Mods, while we were testing the Skin Mods, Edit Skin, Simple Skins and SkinsDB here, we noticed that the Arm looks strange, while my friend uses a Skin in the 64x32 Format, I use a Skin in the 64x64 Format, and we saw that the Arm in First Person, by the 64x32 Format having the back textures and the inner texture of the Arm showing, like in these Issues mentioned.

#30
#67

But the 64x64 Format having Issues too, it shows the textures of the left Arm in First Person while the back textures shows top left and the outer texture shows top right, instead of the textures of the right Arm. While a Symmetrical Skin in the 64x64 Format like the ones that come with the Mod, make you trink, that it looks correct, by Asymmetrical Skins it shows the Issue then.

None of use knows how to make Models, so we tried using the edit_skin_hand.obj from Edit Skin, and changed the b3d part in the skin_meta_api.lua line 75 to obj. While this works too, it looks like the Arm rotated 90 degree to the left, showing the inner textures of the Arm on top left, while the front texture top right. That is only for the 64x32 Format, so still no front texture top left and outer texture top right. Trying using the same obj file for the 64x64 Format, give you something that doesn't look right.

We downloaded these Skins to play, they might help you too, when you fix these Issues.
https://www.planetminecraft.com/skin/oldest-pixel-gun-3d-default-skin-64x32/
https://www.planetminecraft.com/skin/skin-made-by-dobyghost/

So could you PLEASE fix this Issues, this Mod would go from good/best Skin Mod, up to the PERFECT Skin Mod.
That's in advance.

It got labeled... o.o

Question, would it be allowed/okay if this could be asked in the subreddit?
Or if someone's asking in the Forum, to speed things up?

[SmallJoker]

@BlockAndPixelAge There's currently no contributor who is A) familiar with the mod to B) fix the model as intended. Perhaps that way someone could be found? It's worth a try at least.

Are there some ways to message some Minetest Mod Creators directly? While testing some Mods, my friend and I saw in some Mods model folders with b3d file, where we guess the Mod Creators have Blender knowledge/skills, but I don't see here on Github the option to write them directly.

Don't know if it's okay to mention them, but maybe it could help.
@jordan4ibanez who blessed this mod with the first person arm in the first place.
There would be one more, but if I click on mention here and type the name, there stands (busy) behind the name.

And on Reddit, I guess I need to repost the Topic again in a few days, sorted under "new" it's at the moment the fourth latest post.

If I find an Tutorial, would it be okay to link it here?

[bell07]

@BlockAndPixelAge , this is the right place to contact mod maintainer and creators. Everyone involved can read along, and maybe responisibilites are changed.

Long time ago I forked u_skins mod and did lot of enhancements and rewrites .. I implemented the First-person hand also. But in the meantime I am not active for minetest anymore.

I do not have blender skills, just got the files from other projects:

The player model (if I remember right) I got from https://github.com/stujones11/minetest-models/tree/master/character/3d_armor/mt_0.5.0-dev/multiskin_branch to support 1.8er skins

The hand model I used from https://github.com/jordan4ibanez/newhand

@bell07

Thanks for the response.

So that means, we now have to play the waiting game, while I maybe renew/repost the topic I opened on the subreddit every one or two weeks, until someone shows up, who could fix the arm textures in first person.
The Skins looking perfectly fine in 3rd Person View, just to mention it, only the arms in first person.

But in the end, it doesn't change that this is the best Skin Mod we encountered so far, which will turn to perfect, when the first person arm textures for 64x32 and 64x64 format, finally get fixed.

And thanks for the Mods you created, when you were active.

[jordan4ibanez]

It sounds like we have a new maintainer on the horizon

[jordan4ibanez]

If you found a way to fix it, fire up that pr machine immediately and bring this mod into this decade

To see the legend him/herself, who made the First Person Arm with newhand possible, writing here under this Issue.

Could it be, that me @ you, did this?

[APercy]

I never was involved with this mod, I don't understand why I was tagged here...

Sorry, were looking who might have Blender Skills, based on the Mods with b3d Models.

And I'm new to Github, so directly knowing that mentioning someone would notify them too, I didn't thought about that.
In that case, I'm sorry.

[APercy]

okay, no problem, I was just confused, I was first trying to find if any of my mods had any conflict with it :)

If I find conflicts, I will post an Issue then. ;)

[Lemente]

I tried fixing the 3d models
but I don't know how to properly export to b3d

you can find them here: https://github.com/Lemente/minetest-assets/tree/master/from-minetest-mods