Is there a fix anywhere for the Japanese glitch?!

I've had this every game with the Japanese in it - when they get their longbow - the graphics go nuts - often crashing civ4. Doesn't matter what video card I've had - what version of drivers - it's been same with ATI/AMD/NVidia.

Having it again on build 1009.

Is there a fix? work-around? anything?!

Yep - this game just crashed. No message - just blinked out of existence.

I must be able to assign a boring standard longbow 3d model to the Nipponese - to avoid this glitch... someone want to point out what file(s) i need to edit to address this? Pretty please

I appear to have kluged a solutioN:

...\My Games\beyond the sword\MODS\Rise of Mankind - A New Dawn\Assets\XML\Art\CIV4ArtDefines_Unit.xml

Search for ART_DEF_UNIT_YUMISAMURAI

Then replace the UnitArtInfo block as follows:
<UnitArtInfo>
<Type>ART_DEF_UNIT_YUMISAMURAI</Type>
<Button>Art/Interface/Buttons/Units/yumibtn.dds</Button>
<fInterfaceScale>1.0</fInterfaceScale>
<bActAsLand>0</bActAsLand>
<bActAsAir>0</bActAsAir>
<NIF>Art/Units/Longbowman/Longbowman.nif</NIF>
<KFM>Art/Units/Longbowman/Longbowman.kfm</KFM>
<SHADERNIF>Art/Units/Longbowman/Longbowman.nif</SHADERNIF>
<ShadowDef>
<ShadowNIF>Art/Units/01_UnitShadows/UnitShadow.nif</ShadowNIF>
<ShadowAttachNode>BIP Pelvis</ShadowAttachNode>
<fShadowScale>1.0</fShadowScale>
</ShadowDef>
<fBattleDistance>0.35</fBattleDistance>
<fRangedDeathTime>0.31</fRangedDeathTime>
<bActAsRanged>1</bActAsRanged>
<TrainSound>AS2D_UNIT_BUILD_UNIT</TrainSound>
<AudioRunSounds>
<AudioRunTypeLoop/>
<AudioRunTypeEnd/>
</AudioRunSounds>
</UnitArtInfo>

I'm going to have a fix when I do my next upload.

Another temporary solution is to go into Assets\XML\Civilizations\CIV4UnitArtStyleTypeInfos.xml and delete the <StyleUnit> for UNIT_LONGBOWMAN under UNIT_ARTSTYLE_JAPAN. That is, all of this:
Either delete ALL of this or change YUMISAMURAI to LONGBOWMAN or LONGBOWMAN_CHINA. Deleting the entire section will force the Japanese Longbowman back to the vanilla Longbowman art. Changing it forces a different art definition to be called. LONGBOWMAN_CHINA is, as you can guess, a Chinese Longbowman. No one has reported any problems from that unit.

Thanks Vokarya!
Any idea what's wrong with that nif?

Mordachai said:

Thanks Vokarya!
Any idea what's wrong with that nif?

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I don't know what's wrong with it. It doesn't give problems for everyone. Otherwise, it would have been replaced a long time ago. I've loaded up one or two save games where someone else had the glitch happening and no glitch for me.

It was me. I remember posting about a few months ago (6 months). You couldn't replicate the glitch. Nice to see that it's not just me.

I've had this glitch on every PC I've owned for 7 years - at least. I play ROM:AND often as well - which also has this unit - and it happens to me constantly. It doesn't always crash Civ - that seems new to me - usually it's just nigh-impossible to see anything if they're in the frame of view (brown color-spikes shoot out to infinity blocking ones view).

I'm surprised it's not everyone since - I've owned at least four rigs over that time - some using ATI (AMD) video cards, others using NVidia (as is case now).

I've had it in Windows 7, 8, 8.1, and now 10.

Not to blame anyone - just surprised that it isn't more widespread! :O