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Quick Soldier Info: Tactical Headshots

Plugin for Quick Soldier Info to make it capture head images in the tactical layer.

Quick Soldier Info suffers from an issue where a reload removes pictures taken in the strategy layer, leaving you with a fallback icon (which isn't nice...). Also, mind controlled units and reinforcements on the XCOM team do not have an image from strategy most of the time.


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The images are taken using a literal camera: A sensor and a photo flash (neccessary because of Post-Process effects not applying to the sensor). This means that you'll have a short flashing light when a photo is taken.

The images are created by inserting little markers into certain animations. When that marker is hit, a capture is attempted. This is because there are a lot of bad times to capture an image, such as when the unit has closed eyes etc.
The animations are the peek animations for units that can take cover, the idle animations for units that don't take cover.
Additionally, for soldiers, the markers are added to the idle-in-cover animations.
This means that modded units should work, with the exception of units that aren't just re-colors / re-sizes. From the top of my head, I recall Drones and the Celatid. They will get added at some point.

If a capture takes longer than 150ms, the image is discarded. This is because the unit may turn away during that time, resulting in the image not framing the head correctly.
If a unit is currently not visible on the screen, the capture will not be taken. This is because the attachments (hair, helmet etc.) are only updated when the unit is shown.

We are playing XCOM. This means that even the camera can miss from time to time. Should an image be just bad, there is a little red X above the currently selected unit in Quick Soldier Info. Clicking it clears the picture, and a new image will be taken as soon as possible.
You should move the unit somewhere else before clicking that button, or it's likely that the new image will be equally bad.