Is this shield effect a bug or intentional?

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When the majority of my ships have their shields showing, there is clearly writing stating "Sins of a Solar Empire" written across them. Is this normal? It looks very odd.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

????? picture???

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I've never seen or heard that happening, so i'd say it's rare bug. I would say anti-piracy method, but this is Stardock were talking here.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Hmm, your texture folder could be borked.  You may want to reinstall to see if that fixes it.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb26/angronn/untitled.jpg

 

Here's a picture. It appears that the shield texture is actually a translucent copy of the front screen background. Hence, when I took this screenshot (playing Entrenchment) the shield design was the fellow in the chair from the front screen background, and when playing vanilla Sins, the Sins of a Solar Empire logo and text appears instead.

 

I don't know if I can be bothered with a full uninstall/reinstall. It's not that big a deal. I was just wondering if it was intentional.

 

EDIT: Just so it's clear, the man is showing up on the planet because there's a shield generator there, and the design is easiest to see on a spherical shield. It does show up on all capital ship shields and the Advent shield ship as well.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I was just wondering if it was intentional.
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Nope.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting VarekRaith, reply 5

I was just wondering if it was intentional.
Nope.
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I'd got that by now. ;P

 

Thanks for the help.