Statue (Civilization) with missing asset (invisible) for East Asian architecture

[Grandy02]

GAME INFORMATION

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• GAME BUILD #: 128442
• GAME PLATFORM: Steam
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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In the Scenario Editor, the appearance of the eye candy object named “Statue (Civilization)” depends on the player’s architecture. In the case of East Asian architecture, it includes a missing (invisible) asset. The object can no longer be rotated then, but it’s still there. Units will be blocked by the invisible statue.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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• 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Open the Scenario Editor and change Civilzation and Architecture of Player 1 to a civ with East Asian architecture (e.g. Chinese).
2. Place the object “Statue (Civilization)” (found under “Other” tab) for Player 1.
3. With “Rotate”, cycle through the different variants of the Statue (Civilization). The object will eventually become invisible and unselectable.

EXPECTED RESULT

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The object doesn’t become invisible. Instead, the next statue variant appears.

IMAGE

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If one reaches the missing graphic, it is no longer possible to rotate.

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[Velk413]

The theorist in me wonders if this is more evidence of the next “traditional” DLC being in the China area, and in the course of work they’re doing on that they messed up something with this asset…i’m probably getting into tin-foil hat territory but still.

[IvanHCastro]

Hi guys!

Thanks a lot for the report of the statue. We were already tracking this issue.

[Grandy02]

Still not fixed as of update 158041.
It could be that there’s no missing graphic for the East Asian variant, just a superfluous rotation. The number of rotations depends on the architecture set, the Middle Eastern one has just 3, for example, while East Asian has the most rotations. The dragon sculpture is followed by the Central Asian statues in the Statue (Left/Right) objects.

So, I think this can be fixed by simply changing the Angle Count parameter of graphic ID 1688 (Statue C ASIA) from 13 to 12.