I am using LPC as a basis for a 2D character controller in Unity, using one of the GitHub repositories where the animations are seperated.  I am not interested in doing sprite sheets for all the parts and possible color combinations.  I currently have animations for Climb, Idle, Walk, and Sit for the head, body, hair, shirt, pants and shoes.  It should be easy to add in more body parts, and animations.

My computer is not a fan of using LastUpdate to swap out the art contantly even with just one character.  My solution is to just swap out the sprite for every possible position and just hide them until they as needed, it is a lot less loading of resouorces. It can switch gender, and should be able to swap clothing mid game easily enough.

Left is the base, right is swapped.

Character walking left.

What do you guys think of this method?  Is it something you wold be interested in?  What other parts and animations are the most important to add?

Once I add the various body colors and parts plus the rest of the animations, I could upload it to Unity Asset store.  I can also alter it if you can think of a better method.