attempt to work around engine player model bug

when the world loads and the player spawns in, or is
teleported to the same node space as a sign, occasionally, the
player's model goes flat and their skin gets changed to the
whatever the sign's text is.

Also, when checking if an entity needs spawned, or when
deleting, try to make absolutely sure that only sign-related
entities will be selected for re-use, or selected for deletion
(we don't want some player's prize cow to be deleted)

I think this will fix it, or at least it'll surely prevent
signs_lib from being able to cause it.

Also, moved another function to the entity-handling section of
the file and made it global (signs_lib namespace) in the
process.

api.lua

@@ -168,9 +168,14 @@ minetest.register_entity("signs_lib:text", {
 function signs_lib.delete_objects(pos)
 	local objects = minetest.get_objects_inside_radius(pos, 0.5)
 	for _, v in ipairs(objects) do
+		if v then
+			local e = v:get_luaentity()
+			if e and string.match(e.name, "sign.*text") then
 				v:remove()
 			end
 		end
+	end
+end
 
 function signs_lib.spawn_entity(pos, texture)
 	local node = minetest.get_node(pos)
@@ -182,8 +187,17 @@ function signs_lib.spawn_entity(pos, texture)
 	local obj
 
 	if #objects > 0 then
-		obj = objects[1]
+		for _, v in ipairs(objects) do
-	else
+			if v then
+				local e = v:get_luaentity()
+				if e and e.name == "signs_lib:text" then
+					obj = v
+				end
+			end
+		end
+	end
+
+	if not obj then
 		obj = minetest.add_entity(pos, "signs_lib:text")
 	end
 
@@ -230,6 +244,14 @@ function signs_lib.spawn_entity(pos, texture)
 	end
 end
 
+function signs_lib.set_obj_text(pos, text)
+	local split = signs_lib.split_lines_and_words
+	local text_ansi = Utf8ToAnsi(text)
+	local n = minetest.registered_nodes[minetest.get_node(pos).name]
+	signs_lib.delete_objects(pos)
+	signs_lib.spawn_entity(pos, signs_lib.make_sign_texture(split(text_ansi), pos) )
+end
+
 -- rotation
 
 function signs_lib.handle_rotation(pos, node, user, mode)
@@ -288,7 +310,6 @@ function signs_lib.handle_rotation(pos, node, user, mode)
 		minetest.swap_node(tpos, { name = node.name, param2 = signs_lib.rotate_facedir[node.param2] or 0 })
 	end
 
-	signs_lib.delete_objects(tpos)
 	signs_lib.update_sign(tpos)
 	return true
 end
@@ -544,7 +565,7 @@ local function make_line_texture(line, lineno, pos, line_width, line_height, cwi
 	return table.concat(texture), lineno
 end
 
-local function make_sign_texture(lines, pos)
+function signs_lib.make_sign_texture(lines, pos)
 	local node = minetest.get_node(pos)
 	local meta = minetest.get_meta(pos)
 
@@ -598,14 +619,6 @@ function signs_lib.split_lines_and_words(text)
 	return lines
 end
 
-function signs_lib.set_obj_text(pos, text)
-	local split = signs_lib.split_lines_and_words
-	local text_ansi = Utf8ToAnsi(text)
-	local n = minetest.registered_nodes[minetest.get_node(pos).name]
-	signs_lib.delete_objects(pos)
-	signs_lib.spawn_entity(pos, make_sign_texture(split(text_ansi), pos))
-end
-
 function signs_lib.construct_sign(pos)
 	local form = "size[6,4]"..
 		"textarea[0,-0.3;6.5,3;text;;${text}]"..
@@ -1045,7 +1058,6 @@ minetest.register_lbm({
 		minetest.swap_node(pos, {name = basename, param2 = node.param2})
 		local meta = minetest.get_meta(pos)
 		meta:set_int("widefont", 1)
-		signs_lib.delete_objects(pos)
 		signs_lib.update_sign(pos)
 	end
 })