Changing a Player's Skin

Is it possible to just change a player's skin and not their name?

 

No, their skin is handled by the client. The client uses their name to get the skin.

 

It's possible to change his/her name to get a specific skin, like in TheHerobrine.

 

I believe you can do this with spout, but other than that I don't think it's possible.

 

answer is:

open client's source and check player model renderer code for info about how client render players and what fields it use for it.

it may be possible to trick client into rendering model with one texture and then change entity name to something else, but you wont get answer before you do it.


spout is mod, you can force clients on your server, but you can't force players to join your server, it's unlikely for someone to install 3rd party client just to visit your server.