[BUG] Actors can't use skin sprites.

[inkoalawetrust]

GZDoom version

g4.12pre-480-g14a57b8de-m

Which game are you running with GZDoom?

Doom 2

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A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

The sprites of player skins cannot be applied to actors.

For example, if you make a morph class that when morphed into, spawns an fake actor that takes the See: state sprites of the unmorphed player using State.GetSpriteTexture(). It will take the PLAY sprite and paste it to the fake actor.

But if you also make GetSpriteTexture() take that states' sprite while accounting for the players' skin. It will properly return the skin graphic name (i.e in the example skin I've attached, the sprite name is TRCH).
But trying to then apply that sprite name to the fake actors' curstate.sprite field with GetSpriteIndex() will NOT work, it just makes the fake actor invisible, nor will directly using the spritename in GetSpriteIndex like GetSpriteIndex("TRCH") work. Nor will changing the fake actor to just have TRCH A as its' default sprite work. And if you say, try to make a custom Imp that uses TRCH in his' Spawn: state, the sprite will be invalid and turn the Imp into an unknown actor placeholder.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour.

Explain how to reproduce

1. Download the attached ZIP file below.
2. Load both Skin Grab Bag.wad and SkinExample.zip
3. Open up GZDoom.
4. Type "morphme SkinSnatcherPlayer"
5. One of two things will happen, if you kept your skin as the default. The morph should just spawn an actor with the DoomPlayers' See: sprite, and the snatched sprite in the console should be returned as "PLAY". If you changed your skin to "CMBTurret", the fake actor will have successfully snatched "TRCH" and say so in the console, and apply it to itself. But the sprite will be invisible.
   SkinBug.zip

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[prof-hastig]

If you look at the setup code you will see that skins are treated as a completely separate kind of resource entity, so it is not surprising they cannot be used as regular sprites.

Just imagine what would happen otherwise if your skin was named BOSS, for example...