There's also a surprise I've had in store for this model: It's fully compatible with any MineCraft skin. I did the UV mapping so the exact same areas of the texture are used. So if you have a favorite custom skin you use in MC, simply apply it as a texture to the mesh and it will work :) Just for clarity... this is not to copy MineCraft, but to allow people to use their custom skins in both places, since I think many would like that.
In my test I use the default MineCraft player skin... but for obvious licensing reasons it's not included in GIT. To use it, get the texture from HERE, rename it from Char.png to player.png, and place it in the same folder (models) as the mesh.
Needed next is help from lua scripters: The player script needs functions to detect when the player is walking forward, backward, or strafing left or right... and with what speed. Also when the player is mining (holding the left mouse button). If you can help with that, please checkout the game branch and modify player.lua accordingly. Feel free to put the changes on your own repository or pastebin them to me or post them here. This is very needed, since currently the script just loops one player animation!
Also, we need a MineCraft skin that's license compatible. If you know one link it here, or feel free to make your own. This shouldn't be hard.
Other than that, the code is now ready for testing. I still haven't figured out why manually editing joints makes the mesh break, but hopefully that will be fixed soon. I'll post instructions later about how to test. Soon after that I will pull request it so it can be added to MineTest.
Code branch: https://github.com/MirceaKitsune/minetest/tree/models
Game branch: https://github.com/MirceaKitsune/minetest_game/tree/models
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