New Unit: The Trident

[odintheking]

You have to post the thread link andname and stuff in the C&C thread called "Advertise your new/updated files for front page coverage!".
BTW, AWESOME unit.

 

[Orthanc]

Thanks a million, hopefully it'll be up on the front page soon!

 

[Dom Pedro II]

It's you're decision how big you want this thing to be in game, but I'd just like to point out to readers that this thing is actually as long as a modern battleship (in reality, though this is a fictional vessel if you can figure that out). But Civ3 never keeps things to scale anyways (ie: spearmen taller than Galleons in game ) so again, your decision. Anyhwo, just a side note.

It's supposed to be the size of a battleship in reality? Whoa.... I doubt that it'd be possible to build a wooden ship that big... I mean, I hear the Chinese treasure ships topped out at around 500 feet, but an Iowa class battleship still has another three hundred and them some to go....

In any event, I like it if the sea units get progressively bigger to show development.

 

[Bungus]

That's what my ex-girlfriend used to say...

Oh yeah? Is that why she's your ex?
Heheheh Sorry, couldn't resist!

It doesn't look like Santa will be bringing me any new units this Christmas...

 

[Orthanc]

Yeah, I'm not sure if it is possible for wooden ships to be around 800 feet long, but as it says in the civilopedia entry in the file the keel is basically iron and there are iron supports throughout the whole thing. Even if all this didn't work, it is fictional in the first place.

 

[CenturionV]

I somehow got the feeling this would be a nuclear missile, or maybe a submarine, not a 18th centry warship, oh well pretty cool looking anyway.

 

[Priest123]

IT'S FINALLY FLIPPIN' FINISHED!

My second unit, the massive fictional sailing ship The Trident is complete. I started this thing at the beginning of November, but my next unit will definately NOT take anywhere near as long, maybe I can evn make it a christmas present and set a new record for myself.

Thanks everyone who contributed ideas and help in this thing's In Progress thread, you really helped keep me motivated.

Anywho, here's the file:
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads8/Trident.zip

And a preview Civilopedia pic (sorry I don't have animated previews, I don't know/ forget how to do those)

this is Priest123, I am having proplems getting the corvette32 in the unit_32 list. It will not show up the icon that is. I'm usiing acdsee 6.0 what image editor are you using so that i can get this working! Finally someone who knows about the little ship that could.

 

[Orthanc]

Technically it would be best to post this in my Corvette Unit thread, but whatever.

For putting the units_32 icons in, I just use Microsoft Photo Editor (I think it comes with windows, Microsoft Pain or Adobve Photoshop I'm sure would work. I'm not sure about the program you're using). Just open the icon file and copy and paste it to the appropriate location. Usually right after the last unit icon in your units_32 file is best, make sure to center the pasted icon so that it fits in the lines neatly. Just a note that the units_32 colouring for my original Sloop, Trident and Corvette is not perfect ie: I made the civ colour blue when it should be red for units_32, this is fixed in all units I've made after those, and if you want I can get you correct files or even an entire units_32. Just tell me what you need and I'll see what I can do. Though I don't think I can fix the Trident right now, simply since it would take forever.