Best implementation for 2D character skins

Excuse me, I've wanted to create skins for my game's main character, and I was wondering about the best way to implement it with the limitations of the mobile capabilities in mind, the processing, RAM etc., what I had in mind was basically simply putting ALL skins on my character at the same time, and switch between them using gameObject.setActive(false);
So is that a good way to implement it? Or will the fact that they all exist in the same time be consuming to the memory and inefficient at all? Is there some other way to like, instantiate them from somewhere and just input the positions and call it a day? Thank you in advance, I really appreciate any advise I would get ^_^

 

If it's a skin, and there isn't much difference between the shapes, just switch the sprite [] Store the skins in an array, and assign them to the sprite renderer when you needed using this:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. public Sprite[] skins;
3.  
4. void ChangeSkin(int skinToUse)
5. {
6. gameObject.GetComponent<SpriteRenderer>().sprite = skins[skinToUse];
7. }

If you have any questions, just ask []

 

Suppose I want to have some downloadable skins. Do you have any suggestions for that?

 

Ah, now that's a bit trickier. You would have to look into WWW classes (Which work not only for URLs but for hard drive paths too). I've personally only glanced over runtime asset loading, so I can't give you a code example.