i found a funny bug related to this subject yesterday. i was playing as julii and i hired a barbarian cav that i deployed in a battle. this merc unit which is green in color would magically change color to red, julii color, when i zoom out. the funny this is that the color change occur at a certain distance from you camera position automatically, so if i zoom slowly i can make half of the merc green, and the other half red. i think i can fix this if i mess with the model.txt file, but why bother...

someone mention earlier that 2d sprites isn't used if you set the graphic option to the highest setting. i don't think it's true. i set everything to the highest and i still see sprites.