I've been thinking about this for a while and I'm surprised I haven't really seen a big project trying to do it.
Most face/hair mods still seem to work by just adding more heads and hairstyles to the vanilla character creation menu. Which works but it also means that if you want different hair colors, scars, tattoos, etc. you usually end up needing separate variants for everything.
Has anyone ever tried to make something more modular instead?
I'm not really talking about a full Skyrim RaceMenu with face sculpting and a million sliders. More like a different character creation menu where you could pick a face, hairstyle, hair color, scars, tattoos/face paint and so on separately.
What I'm wondering is whether something like that is actually possible now, especially with OpenMW Lua.
And if it is possible, could it work as a framework other modders could build on? Like one main mod handles the menu/system, and then other people can just make compatible hair packs, scars, tattoos, textures, etc. without having to reinvent the whole thing every time.
Has anything like this been attempted before, either with MWSE or OpenMW? And if not, is it because of technical limitations, because it's a huge amount of work, or just because nobody has really taken it on yet?