How difficult is it to make customiseable protags?

[AshenhartKrie]

So I have quite an ambitious idea in mind - and my only real issue is that I'm a beginner coder. I want to make my protagonist for my VN customiseable - gender, hair style/colour, skin colour, eyes etc. The art itself isn't a problem, but when it comes to coding it with Ren'Py I have an issue. I only know the complete basics of ren'py and even then I have a few difficulties.
In the opinion of more experienced coders, is this something feasible I could do if I was determined? And are there tutorials out there for this?

[trooper6]

It is certainly done. You have variables for the things that you want to change. Then for images, use a LiveComposite with Condition Switches.

[underbliss]

I don't think it's that difficult to do at all, especially if you're buckled down on the art side of things. In my opinion, at least following the tutorial I did, the most tedious part far and away is creating (and SAVING) all your appearance variations in the file structure.

This is the tutorial I followed for it!

[netravelr]

Code-wise, as the others have mentioned, it is fairly easy to do so. The difficult part is getting/making all of the artwork for it (and any CGs you may have those characters in down the road)

[AshenhartKrie]

Code-wise, as the others have mentioned, it is fairly easy to do so. The difficult part is getting/making all of the artwork for it (and any CGs you may have those characters in down the road)

can you believe i actually forgot that i'd need separate CGs depending on what the character looks like
now THAT sounds like a bit of tricky coding
or well
maybe not tricky just a lot of intensive work
i suppose its a matter of using an "if then" command? im psure thats a thing in renpy pls correct me otherwise