There are a few ways to go around that... High poly to low poly with sculpting and blender materials, photo manipulation in gimp, traditional painting etc...
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Hello
This is a known bug with the re-release to fix it either disable TLS in the game options lobby tab, or download the fixed bundle here http://www.mediafire.com/file/00lxxtdmsu64nrs/0ad-0.0.23b-alpha-osx64.dmg/file
Hello
Look at https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/ReportingErrors
and
https://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GameDataPaths
In the meantime in the game options try disabling GLSL and postprocessing.
I didn't know the water would render the blackface. Then my only concern would be the cinema manager when rendering cutscenes. But else yes they might be unnecessary.