Issue with creating custom player heads

[warm coral]

Hello, I'm programming a function in spigot which basically returns a player head with a skin with provided texturevalue, but it doesn't work and i don't really know how to fix it/do it at all. Can someone help me out?
Code I came up with so far:

        ItemStack customHead = new ItemStack(Material.PLAYER_HEAD);
        SkullMeta meta = (SkullMeta) customHead.getItemMeta();
        try {
            PlayerProfile owner = HLevels.getPlugin().getServer().createPlayerProfile(textureValue);
            meta.setOwnerProfile(owner);
            customHead.setItemMeta(meta);
            return customHead;
        } catch (NullPointerException e)
        {
            return null;
        }
    }```

[silk quartz]

?notworking

[unreal grail]

"Does not working" is a useless statement. Please describe what exactly is not working, what you expect it to do, and what actually happens. If you get any console errors, also ?paste the entire stacktrace.

[silk quartz]

also why are you catching a NPE?

[warm coral]

yea mb, it basically applies some random skin/none skin at all, i'm trying to apply this
https://minecraft-heads.com/custom-heads/blocks/61818-emerald-block

[silk quartz]

https://blog.jeff-media.com/creating-custom-heads-in-spigot-1-18-1/ check out my blog post about custom heads

[warm coral]

im just trying to get it working and did it so intellij would shut up xD

doesn't throw exception though

[silk quartz]

yeah but if you just catch the exception without printing it out, then you won't even know there was an exception

the blog post explains everything needed to turn the info from the website into a an actual head

[warm coral]

i'll check it out, thanks

[silk quartz]

np!

[warm coral]

it worked flawlessly, thank you very much!