Find the hidden Firaxis logo

[God of Kings]

It's a shame that the Firaxis logo isn't one of the customizable religion icon. The Firaxism will be a great religion !​

Firaxisism would be the one true religion.

 

[Abaxial]

They could do with hiding all the bloody animated vanity logos on boot up.

 

[nzcamel]

Seem's legit to have your mark on your work to me.

 

[Ondolindë]

When I asked @firaxis, in the last live stream, whether every civ leader had the logo concealed somewhere, I got the answer: "We'll never tell."

 

[Abaxial]

Seem's legit to have your mark on your work to me.

Then just put it as a static image on the title screen. I pay to play the game, not wait and watch the same vanity animation over and over.

 

[Sagax]

Necro'ing this thread because :

1. GS is coming, and we have already spotted FXS logo on Laurier

2. Here are the ACTUAL hidden logos on Pericles and Gorgo. Very sneaky, Firaxis.

Pericles - "FIRAXIS" is written on the scroll that he carries.

Spoiler :

Gorgo - hidden under the knot on her shoulder pad.

Spoiler :

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

If we diverge from just inspecting leaders, we can see the logo on the Ice Hockey Rink and the Rock Band bass drum.

 

[Vandlys]

If we diverge from just inspecting leaders, we can see the logo on the Ice Hockey Rink and the Rock Band bass drum.

And of course the Stadium since vanilla : )

 

[Republic of San Montuoso]

Necro'ing this thread because :

1. GS is coming, and we have already spotted FXS logo on Laurier

Don't want to seem uncultured, but where is the FXS logo sign on Laurier ?

 

[ferretbacon]

Don't want to seem uncultured, but where is the FXS logo sign on Laurier ?

It's the pattern on his cravat. Fairly difficult to see without zooming in.

Laurier-cravat

• ferretbacon
• Feb 10, 2019

 

[Potworny]

I've found the logo in Eleanor's normal map (I have no idea how it could visibly appear on the model). There really may be a logo on every leader, it's just a matter of looking thoroughly enough.

Spoiler Eleanor :

Also, there seem to be two secret messages in Pericles' textures, and the written 'FIRAXIS' may not be our logo. It actually may instead be the little swirl. The text on the scroll is actually a cute little wholesome message for the modders (and dataminers like myself, i suppose). Two different versions of Pericles' textures exist.

Spoiler Pericles :

I don't know if I want to research this way further. Kind of seems like cheating and I don't want to spoil the fun ;v

Edit: Also, I deciphered a naughty word in one of the files :>

Edit2: I put the naughty word in funny/strange screenshots thread. I've also found textures and such for Gandhi's pocket watch, even though I don't recall him using it?

 

[fy00sh]

I think I might have found the logos on Poundmaker!
So I was looking thru the textures for all the leaders' bodies and clothes to try and find more logos and noticed that there's some blue swirlies on Poundmaker's collar.

Here's the full base colors for Poundmaker's clothes:

Spoiler Poundmaker clothing colors :

And here's the part that corresponds to the collar, zoomed in:

Spoiler Poundmaker's collar :

If those really are supposed to serve at least partly as the hidden Firaxis logos, then they definitely are more abstract than most others, but as DeutschDachs and Guandao pointed out back on page 2, it'd make sense that Firaxis wouldn't want to literally brand any part of Poundmaker's model with their exact logo.

 

[fy00sh]

Kept looking and just found the logo on Kupe! It's on his necklace, right in the middle. It's visible on the base color, gloss, and normal maps, but the result on the in-game model is so negligible that I doubt anyone would've ever found it without looking thru the textures.

Spoiler Base Color :

Spoiler Gloss :

Spoiler Normal :

And now I can confirm that Wilhelmina's hidden logos are on her umbrella! I can't tell which is the inside and which is the outside just from looking at them, but one side has a very big logo that's easily visible on the ambient occlusion, fuzz, and transparency maps, while the other side has a bunch of small, very faint logos only just barely visible on the normal map.

Spoiler Ambient Occlusion :

Spoiler Fuzz :

Spoiler Translucency :

Spoiler Normal :

 

[Potworny]

The ressurection of this thread makes me so happy. Thanks y'all. Maybe it makes us one step closer to an organised datamining community like Valve and Nintendo have :v
That'd be fun.
Matthew Kean liked my question about the appearance of the logo on EVERY leader: https://twitter.com/moistcroc/status/1292988581921914880; I guess the search is on then.

I was struggling to find a logo on Gandhi, Harald and Qin Shi Huang lately. I couldn't confirm the logos that some of you have pointed out in this thread, though I've found an unused watch (a nod to Zenith Alarm?), a strange face engraving (which may or may not be a part of his helmet) and Chinese letters respectively on them. The letters on Qin are actually partially visible on the bottom of his gown most of the time, there seems to be two of them and the lower of them seems to be 天 (tian - which i think means sky). I don't know much about Chinese, so I'll leave deciphering the rest of it to you. Although I'm quite certain that the signs don't match ones that Qin would use himself, they seem to be way too modern.

Spoiler Qin's letters :

The letter I could not decipher is pretty much completely visible in this picture. I may update the post with the texture from the dev assets later.

Also, I have completely no idea where could Trajan have the logo, or at least any other easter egg.

 

[Giskler]

Cool stuff guys

 

[Potworny]

I'm beginning to think that this is actually how we are intended to find this stuff.

There's a little logo somewhere on Philip II, as his normal map indicates:

Spoiler :

Not only Kristina's book pages are textures, the cover of ther book also has a Firaxis logo. Via her clothing normal map:

Spoiler tomboy baroque gf's (<3) book :

There's also something I don't know whether to classify as a Firaxis logo or not. Looking through EnvironmentLights folder for Gatrhering Storm, all the leaders have a corresponding file with a graphic looking like this:

Spoiler :

Two leaders, Suleiman and Mansa Musa have a different graphic though, looking like this:

Spoiler :

I think these may be related to simulating light on leader models, but I dont know. There's also something for Grand Canyon in the folder, so yeah, I have no idea.
Seondeok has those roughly Firaxis-like swirls somewhere on her clothes:

Spoiler :

There's an old background for Teddy:

Spoiler :

There is a very visible logo on textures of some (unused?) model from base game. They are labeled as kiran_test_pete, 'kiran' possibly reffering to Kiran Sudhakara. I have no idea whose clothes are these, maybe a test for Qin???:

Spoiler Kiran???? :

There are Aztec logos labeled as 'CivPoland', there are unused assets, models, things that I have no idea what they are. Civ VI SDK Assets deserve their own thread.
I wouldn't be surprised if one could find the original civ chart and Isabela in there. I dont know what to do with some of these files, and there could be so much.

 

[Weraptor]

Shame they didn't reuse the original Teddy's background for Bull Moose.

 

[nzcamel]

No idea, but maybe it wasn't appropriate for a younger Teddy?

 

[Potworny]

I addition to the last texture from my last post, does anybody have any idea whose textures may these be?

Spoiler kiran_test_pete_skin_BASE :

 

[PhoenicianGold]

I addition to the last texture from my last post, does anybody have any idea whose textures may these be?

Spoiler kiran_test_pete_skin_BASE :

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I'm gonna go with Pope Innocent III.