All mail for me should be sent to kier@ap3d.com.

Oh yes, one other thing. Just so that no more of you email me requesting this particular addition, I will now state once and for all that I will never, ever, ever be releasing a version of this model brutalised with the Babylon 5 badge stuck onto the upper wings, as seen in some episodes of the fourth series. Ugh.

If you're interested to see how my version of the Whitestar has progressed since its inception in 1996, click here.

Other Babylon 5 related areas at ap3d.com:

• Build your own Whitestar tutorial A modelling tutorial guiding you through easy-to-follow lessons with the eventual goal of building a Whitestar model yourself.
• Earth Alliance Thunderbolt model From here you can download Nick Lee's EA Thunderbolt model, complete with its LScript plug-ins to automate animation of the thruster jets.
• Jump-point system model This page shows off Kier's Jump Point clone.
• Whitestar v4.0 Development History These pages show some of the development of Whitestar v4.0
• Whitestar Wallpaper for Windows A page with links to some rendered images suitable for use as Windows (or whatever system you use) wallpaper.
• Converting the Whitestar for non-Lightwave software These pages are a reference guide for those people who want to convert the Whitestar model available here for use in other software, such as 3D Studio MAX and Caligari Truespace. Lightwave and Inspire users need not visit these pages unless they're interested.
• Creating the Half-Wire Renders used on these pages - tutorial. This short tutorial shows you how to create the half-wireframe / half-shaded images seen on many of the pages of this site.
• Whitestars by other people. This page is a showcase for Whitestar clones built by other people, either by following my tutorial, converting my Whitestar to another package, or building their own from scratch. If you would like to have an image of your version on this page, follow the instructions listed.

February 1997: White Star v2.5 goes online and becomes freely available over the internet.

October 1997: New information becomes available in the form of "The Babylon 5 Security Manual" by Jim Mortimore. Horrified by the now glaring errors on WS_v2.5, work begins on a complete rebuild; White Star v3.0.

October 1997: White Star v3.0 is completed. The mesh is now 95% accurate and the texture maps are much better.

October 1997: I send some images of WS_v3.0 to Ron Thornton, the guy who designed and built the real White Star for B5. His comment on WS_v3.0 is "very cool" and he sends back some tips on how to improve it still further. These tips take the form of the ACTUAL TEXTURE MAPS FOR THE REAL WHITE STAR...

October 1997: White Star v3.5 is completed before v3.0 is released to the public. The mesh is slightly altered and the texture maps re-painted (again.) White Star v3.5 is now 99% accurate to the real thing. The texture maps are, of course, 100% accurate copies.

August 1998: White Star v3.6 update. I noticed a horrible modelling error where the upper bridge joins the upper fuselage. This would never do, so the spline cage for the upper bridge and its attached protrusions is completely rebuilt for better results with less polygons. The upper wings and engine pods are similarly rebuilt for better accuracy. In addition, I have included the low-polygon version of the model, which I use for scene setup, in the archive for the first time.

February 1999: White Star v4.0 and White Star 90 v1.0. Complete rebuild of all sections... much more tasty...

June 1999: Whitestar v4.0 almost complete. Just a few minor tweaks to make before public release.

November 1999: I'm sorry! There's just been so much work on, I've had trouble finding time to finish WS v4.0... but soon Okay?

July 2000: Release of Whitestar v4.0 and Whitestar 90 v1.0... finally!

Conditions for use:

This model is freeware, but must not be distributed from anywhere but the Alternate Perspective web site without prior permission from me.

Please do not alter the models in any way without first consulting me. The only alteration I will allow at present is for Amiga users to recompile this ZIP archive into an LHA archive.

If you produce any animations or stills with this model, please let me know about it via email or otherwise, or even send me a sample of your work.

Special thanks to Ron Thornton for his help with the final stages of completing this model.

Copyright notice:

This dataset © 1996-2000 Kier Darby

Babylon 5, The White Star and anything Babylon 5 related is the property of Warner Bros.

The White Star was designed by Ron Thornton of Foundation Imaging.

This model remains the property of Kier Darby. I reserve the right to withdraw this model from online status at any time.

This model was created for purely recreational purposes and MUST NOT be used in any project which will incur a financial gain through its use, save for distribution through floppy disk based PD libraries who may not charge anymore than the cost of the disk and shipping. If you disobey this, you may well find yourself looking at a rather hefty law suit from Warner Bros or Babylonian Productions Inc. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.