[...]But I feel pretty confident in saying we're not interested in infants[...]
lol, wasn't that difficult, was it : )
i was thinking of this being displayed in the same area where i saw the exclamation mark icons for wounds in a 2.5 hud in physdat window (the one with soldier stats).
but now i think of it, maybe the size and location was a temporary solution, and i might have overdone with the size constraints.
Given how small the images are likely to be on the HUD, I'd go with a simple human outline, more like what you see on bathroom doors:[...]
actually i did already try a very similar thing (searched for icons), but the parallel limbs did not look very good when recolored.
all in all, i understand abstract is the way to go then, or maybe a soldier model from the game if it can be larger than 32x32.
edit: found some better ones, i think:
http://www.easyicon.cn/language.en/icondetail/543273/http://www.easyicon.cn/language.en/icondetail/543072/edit:
as a fully patched up soldier would look something like this:
then for anything more than just recolored, it might sense to use mummy pictures.
and a preview of recolored abstract human that i think i rather like myself, with those not parallel limbs, and i think it is easily identifiable.
made the hands slightly longer than original, and i think i might also enlarge the head a bit.