I am very new to minecraft < 1 week. My son and I are playing together and we both purchased the software at the same time and are on the same type of PC and on the same wifi network (we are 10 feet from each other). We both changed our skins using skins from www.minecraftskins.com. Basically we can both see our own skins when we plan on single player mode. However, when either of us starts a LAN and the other joins, the person who started the LAN looks like the basic "Alex" character to the other. But not vice versa....
So if I start the LAN I can see myself and my son in our new cool skins. But he can see his skin but I look like Alex. If he starts the LAN, then I see him as "Alex" now and he sees both of the skins.
I read a few posts and tried a few things but couldn't find help to this exact problem.
I am very new to minecraft < 1 week. My son and I are playing together and we both purchased the software at the same time and are on the same type of PC and on the same wifi network (we are 10 feet from each other). We both changed our skins using skins from www.minecraftskins.com. Basically we can both see our own skins when we plan on single player mode. However, when either of us starts a LAN and the other joins, the person who started the LAN looks like the basic "Alex" character to the other. But not vice versa....
So if I start the LAN I can see myself and my son in our new cool skins. But he can see his skin but I look like Alex. If he starts the LAN, then I see him as "Alex" now and he sees both of the skins.
I read a few posts and tried a few things but couldn't find help to this exact problem.
This is how LAN play works at the moment. The host of the game is 'special' and other players won't see any custom skin they might have.
Thanks for the info Gerbil... was wracking my brain trying to figure it out. Hard to explain to a 5 year old why stuff doesn't work