Getting skull with texture from link

[molten nimbus]

Hi, I tried numerous times to get texture from a link, and it just doesn't work, it always returns the default texture (Steve)

this is my code rn: (Kotlin but very similar to Java)

var profile = Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer(UUID.randomUUID()).playerProfile
        
val textures = profile.textures
textures.skin = URL(link)
profile.setTextures(textures)
val skull = ItemStack(Material.PLAYER_HEAD)
val meta = skull.itemMeta as SkullMeta
meta.ownerProfile = profile
skull.itemMeta = meta

return skull!!

link is always a textures.minecraft.net / ... link which resolves to real textures (for example, this one http://textures.minecraft.net/texture/3d8af980ff608867b6bc3736111c4c01b41f1ff6899a21e59858bce3d44dcf86)

[left harbor]

Use Bukkit.createPlayerProfile(uuid) instead of the offline player stuff

[molten nimbus]

alright i'll try it 😇

still didn't work unfortunately

for some reason the skull doesn't display correctly when I'm trying to get the item, or trying to set a block, but when I'm setting ItemDisplay to the skull it works

this is not new behaviour though

[left harbor]

Weird

Do you have client mods that may be messing with it

[molten nimbus]

no

vanilla minecraft and paper server. I tried spigot .jar too and there is no change in behaviour

[left harbor]

All I can really offer is https://blog.jeff-media.com/creating-custom-heads-in-spigot-1-18-1/

[molten nimbus]

thank you

[left harbor]

Your code does look fine though

[molten nimbus]

yeah I've been going in circles for almost two days trying to find even the smallest hint on why would it not work

i feel like I'm going insane

[molten nimbus]

update: I think i figured it out