Wyz_Sub10 said:
In talking to Amra, it would seem that your video card is displaying only the nonshader version of the models, rather than the shader ones. This is why you are getting the older leaderheads - the nonshader versions have not been edited.
I have the same problem with this release and my graphics card, a Radeon. When I first looked at CivGold I wondered what was going on--many of leaderheads were wrong and/or unchaged and it certainly looked nothing like the promo leaderheads pictured. What follows is an explanation and two approaches to fixes:
It took me forever to figure out why some people were complaining when I first started skinning: the problem is that many people are seeing only the NONSHADER versions of leaders, but with my card I was only seeing the shader versions at first so I never realized it. Something Firaxis changed in one of their patches changed the behavior so that now my card used the NONSHADER nifs/skins and all of a sudden everything looked funny to me and I understood what was going on.
So the problem is that there are, in actuality, two versions (NIF & skin graphic) of every leaderhead in the game, but any user will see only one set. That means most modders only see one set and assume the other set isn't really doing anything, so they don't change it. Then when it gets released half the group sees the "changed" set and half the group sees the "unchanged" or semi-changed set which ends up looking wrong.
Ultimately I had to go back and redo ALL of my leaderheads in my mod for the non-shader versions because so many people were getting this and it was the only way to be comprehensive. I'm now in the habit of doing both shaders and nonshaders for new leaderheads, but it's a pain in the butt to do it all twice and the non-shaders just don't look as good.
BUT, there is an alternative and I use this in my mod by default. The shader versions are generally a much better quality graphic than the non-shaders. You can force the shader versions and the radeon cards, in fact most cards by report, will do just fine. For some reason the Radeons in particular seem to default to the non-shader versions.
Anyway, if you open the leaderheads art xml file and copy the <NIF></NIF> lines into the <NONSHADER></NONSHADER> lines for each leaderhead, you effectively "force" the nicer shader version, and in this case the modded version. This works for probably 95% of people who are seeing the un-modded older leaderheads. A few unlucky folks will get ghosts (floating eyeballs) and will need to change back.
In my mod I default to the "forced" shader leaderheads, but I include an XML backup of the default leaderhead file that people can use if they get ghosts.
My recommendation, Wyz, would be to do the forced version for CivGold since Amra's nonshader versions haven't been skinned; a few people with older graphics cards will have problems but that will be a smaller group than all the people who will see the non-shader versions without forcing.
I wrote a PERL script to quickly do the "shader force" changes to the XML file; if you want me to Wyz I can send you a copy but you'll need a copy of the perl compiler to run it, and not everyone has perl just sitting around. It's not hard to do by hand, either, I just got sick of doing it over and over when I added new leaderheads.
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Pretty PLEASE make this WARLORDS compatible soon... I know that you will need unique buildings- so this will take time...As for Croatia, I have put da plug and asked the community what they might think of as a unique building... but whatever is decided by your team, should be translated- based on your past care and quality work here: A COMPLETE SUCCESS !!! 
