No need to apologize.
Yes, I meant that I would recommend to create a separate skin for each individually selectable part:
- body
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black
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female1,2..
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male1,2..
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white
---
female1,2..
---
male1,2..
---
yellow
---
female1,2..
---
male1,2..
- face
---
black
---
female1,2..
---
male1,2..
---
white
---
female1,2..
---
male1,2..
---
yellow
---
female1,2..
---
male1,2..
- eyelids
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female1,2..
---
male1,2..
Then you can combine a complete combined character skin e.g. like this:
- body_base/black/female2
- face/black/female1
- eyelids/female3
When you then want to switch individual parts, e.g. cycle through all female eyelids, you can recombine it every time without any problems.