Does anyone have an Artifact Icon ...

[whoward69]

... similar to the "faded icons in a square box" there are for Art, Writing and Music

It needs to follow the same faded colour scheme and be obviously different from the other three (so a bead necklace would look too much like the palette, a sword could look too much like the quill, etc)

 

[mrc2022]

Would an arrow point do the trick?

Note that I don't have one, just suggesting what could be done

 

[kaspergm]

Hi whoward69, good news for you, there are actually official artwork for the Artifacts left in the game files but not used in the game. Look in assets\DLC\Expansion2\UI\Art\Icons

Here's a screenshot of how they look ingame:

Spoiler :

 

[mrc2022]

And so it makes no sense that artifacts use the art icon...

 

[lockstep]

And so it makes no sense that artifacts use the art icon...

Arts and artifacts are currently interchangeable, so it makes sense that the Museum, Hermitage, Louvre, ... use the same icon for them.

 

[whoward69]

Arts and artifacts are currently interchangeable

Not true. Theming bonuses require either all art objects or all artefact objects

 

[whoward69]

Hi whoward69, good news for you, there are actually official artwork for the Artifacts left in the game files but not used in the game. Look in assets\DLC\Expansion2\UI\Art\Icons

Cheers

 

[lockstep]

Not true. Theming bonuses require either all art objects or all artefact objects

Specification:

• Arts and artifacts are currently interchangeable in the sense that slots usable for Great Works of Art are also usable for Artifacts and vice versa.
• The maximum theming bonus for the Louvre requires "2 Great Works of Art and 2 Artefacts with all 4 being from different eras and different civilizations".

 

[mrc2022]

Yet that doesn't mean that they should share the same icon. Visually is incorrect.

 

[kaspergm]

And so it makes no sense that artifacts use the art icon...

No ... and then, yes. Problem is that the way artwork is currently coded, the art is not connected to the actual item, but rather to the slot it fills. This means that if you put them into the same slot, they need to have same icon (the way it is currently coded). You can separate them into different slots and give them different icons, and a better coder than me might make it so that they show up with different artwork in same slot, but with simple coding, the latter is no possible.