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Character corpse prototypes in data stage can define an armor_picture_mapping, but at runtime I see no way to either read this or spawn a corpse with a specific armor mapping. My mod Eradicator's Character Additions would look a bit nicer if I could pass i.e. the name of an armor prototype to create_entity when spawning a corpse. Or alternatively to be able to write an armor name directly to a corpse LuaEntity similarly to how graphics_variations works.

How CharacterCorpsePrototype::armor_picture_mapping works: it is a mapping from an ItemID to an armor index. Game checks entire character corpse inventory and if it finds an item which has a record in the armor_picture_mappings, it takes its value. Highest value found during the corpse inventory scan is used to select what should be drawn. If you want to change the look of a corpse you can insert proper items into the character corpse inventory.

This example will create a corpse with armor index 3 due to power-armor-mk2 in the inventory. Is that enough for your use case or do you want an "override" which will force a specific armor variation index without a need of a specific item in the inventory?