That's awesome, thank you so much for listening to my reasoning. I hope this will make your program even more successful.
Like I said, as long as every part can be separated based on what you have on the character like weapons and such is separated somehow, even on a texture atlas as you described is good enough for me. It makes it possible to do more things with the art which is a + for everyone.
Looking forward to seeing what you are working on... =)