Noobs in Combat: Animated Portrait Idea
randomly thought of this, made a demo (using video editing)
The use of this: WhyAnon is planning on redoing a lot of the older portraits anyways, so why not make them animated instead? It would be set up using a separate camera which would watch the unit. The animation would play and it would appear in the GUI. It's playing in real time, just off the map where you can't see it. Even with the amount of units, it could delete and re-add the models so that only one portrait animation guy would be in the workspace at one time. This could also be all client sided. This may be complicated to set up, but once it's set up, you could potentially adjust settings (if added) which could change the background/lighting of the portrait, and this would apply to every portrait without the need of reuploading new portraits.