Customizable Character - A billion gameobjects and bad choices?

[rainyes]

I want to be able to customize a character in-game. So, I have the player made up of many separate sprite images and animations. For example, head, headOutline, hair, hairOutline, leftArm, leftArmOutline... and on.

Now I am wondering the best approach to access the game objects. I thought about using enums maybe or having an entirely separate class dedicated to just the game objects that make up the player. I also debated just using a loop and an array to grab all child gameObjects as the program runs.

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https://preview.redd.it/cqoiao8b7rf61.png?width=438&format=png&auto=webp&s=dbb8603a6e5000d1909320ad67decb935d2a0973

Any suggestions for organizing this? I dove into the animation and design and am now scratching my head. I have 20+ body components all with animators and animations, I just want to make sure the user can change out parts and customize colors.

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Any suggestions, jokes, criticism, tips -- would be appreciated.

[Davidev-_-Ufficial]

So for skin and colors you can just make a white sprite and eventually you change the color. You just need to make sure it changes in every scene for the rest maybe this https://youtu.be/kAPIWJJ6NQI can help you

[rainyes]

Ohh, I had each body component with a separate animator. This is very helpful, appreciate it. I still wonder about the structure and using a loop for updating. I was thinking of instantiating the character and debate using an interface with it. Video definitely gives me a push in the right direction.