New Star Trek Unit: Danube class Runabout

The Danube class runabouts are basically oversized shuttles flown by two or three persons. Up to 40 persons can be carried. Therfore it is a small transporter. But with two phaser banks and the ability to carry a photon torpedo pod it is well suited for patrol tasks as well combat roles. It is nearly as fast or maneuverable as a Peregrine class fighter, but can sustain more damage. So although it is also classified as heavy fighter IMO it is too big for that. The best classification is as fast craft. So this is not a fighter!
The names of the ships are rivers of the memberworlds of the Federation. The Danube (German: Donau) is the 2nd biggest river in Europe with a length of 2860 km. It evolves at Donauesching (Germany) out of Brigach and Breg and runs into the Black Sea in Rumania.
This is my first unit and so the quality of other units might lack. But I saw worse units. There is no torpedo attack. Perhaps I will do that later but I don´t know.
Thanks to The Morpheus for his programming thread and help and Kenta´arka for his tips and help.
Have fun.
Please give me a feedback.

Adler


EDIT: This is, thanks to The Morpheus, the patched version of the Runabout with changed Death animation. If you downloaded the elder version you can only download Morpheus´patch.

Adler

Sounds good, got an preview?

I have some trouble how to add such an animated preview so it could last a while.

Adler

BTW I forgot to mention: This is a RAR file in a Zip file. You have to unrar the file in the zip. Here is a link: http://www.winrar-rog.com/edownload/

Adler

I tested it in game, and it looks nice. But the explosion is civ-specific colored, maybe it was intended, but a blue explosion is a bit weird

Well, I had trouble with the palette and so I accepted the civ specific explosion. The next unti will be better.

Adler

Here is a death animation. It is a bit bigger than in the game.

Adler

And here are the attack and run animation. The Attack animation is too white and not part of the unit. Also both are too big like the death animation.

Adler

And the run animation:

Adler

the inchworm!

Nice unit

Cool idea for the run ainmation, but I don't know how it look ingame, especially if you move more than one square

Here the pedia icons:

Download pedia icons
I hope I have fixed the palette problem of the death anim.
Download fixed death animation

Thanks, Morpheus. Ingame the running animation looks good IMO. It warps to a tile and then to the next.

Adler

Cool , perhaps I will try it for the Galaxy Class too

Kenta´arka thinks this is too weird for a civ 3 unit: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=1912507#post1912507
I don´t think so, But I´m not sure what to do. Oh do you make the Galaxy class? I planned to do that after the completing of the Miranda class.

Adler

hmmmhmmm, seems I'm the only one who thinks the warp effect is weird. I think I can live with it, if you like it

I never seen it ingame, so I will test it first how like it looks

Galaxy Class Preview Thread