This image shows a Modeler screengrab of Whitestar v4.0 by Kier Darby. For more details, see the Whitestar v4.0 preview pages. This model is due for release very soon now.

Update: June 30th 2000: This model is now available to the public.

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Here you can see the first and finest conversion of my (Kier's) Whitestar 90 to 3D Studio Max format.

Gerardo has made a great effort to accurately reproduce every detail of the Lightwave version in Max, even down to faithfully reproducing the effect of the Lightwave procedural 'underwater' texture used as a diffuse map on the Whitestar's skin.

A nice job, I'm sure you'll agree.

Here you can see version 1.5 of Ian Bremner's Whitestar. He created most of the ship by following the Whitestar Tutorial, although the navigational array in the nose and the lower hull section were built under his own steam, (as I still haven't managed to get these sections of the tutorial finished at the time of writing).

This is the first completed Whitestar I've seen made by following the tutorial, and I'm sure you'll agree, it looks great! Nice bit of compositing too...

William's conversion of the Beyond Babylon preview version of my Whitestar v4.0 is looking great, as you can see. It certainly shows that the 3DSMAX renderer is growing up nicely :-)

William says that he will probably tweak the lighting setup, and fiddle with the textures some more, but for now I think it's safe to say that this is the best 3DSMAX conversion of the Whitestar available to date.

This White Star is made by Tim Riley. He used the Pics and Kier's WS Tutorial as reference material. It is currently version 1.0 and in 2.0 there will be a complete rebuild to get it more accurate to the original model.

White Star v1.0 modeled by Tim Riley has now been released. It can be downloaded at his site here: http://www.3dpg.com.

As well as his own Whitestar (above), Tim has also converted my version of the Whitestar for use in Bryce 3D. This image is entitled "WhiteStar Flies Over Zha-ha-dum". You can see larger versions of this image at Tim's own site.

This version, built by James Daughtry is currently in the texturing stage. He has not been following the tutorial, as he had a few ideas on making it easier.

You can see a larger version of this image on James own site.

Although this model has not been built from scratch, and is actually a conversion of Kier's Whitestar v3.6, this image shows that you don't necessarily need expensive software to produce great imagery. This image was rendered with the free renderer, POV. The textures have been converted to GIF so that POV can read them.

Additionally, Jean-Marc is now working through the Whitestar Tutorial to produce his own model from scratch. We look forward to seeing the first images from that soon!