Short:        Thunderbolt Starfury (Babylon5) for Lightwave
Author:       Todd Pederzani (tep3@lehigh.edu)
Uploader:     Patrick Henz (phenz ibm net)
Type:         pix/3dobj
Architecture: generic
Action:       all Amigas


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					 |		Thunderbolt Starfury	 |

					 |			 (5/26/97)			 |

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							   Todd Pederzani

							  tep3@lehigh.edu

						 http://tep3.res.lehigh.edu

						http://www.lehigh.edu/~tep3/



	DAMN IT PEOPLE, READ THIS FILE.



	Now that I have your attention, I would like to first of all (since

nobody seems to notice it at the bottom) request that IF YOU USE MY MODEL

IN AN ANIMATION OR PICTURE, and PUBLISH THE PICTURE PUBLICLY IN 
SOME FORM,

e-mail me, and tell me what you did and where you put the file.  I've

noticed multiple people on the internet failing to do this, which annoys me

to no end since I've been nice enough to publish the fruits of my labor,

and that's all I ask in return.



	Anyway, I decided to make this model after finding four particularly

good renderings of the original model on the internet.	Although Conor

Clancy has a very nice stylized Thunderbolt available, I wanted one with

sufficient accurate detail to be used in animations and pictures.



	This is actually the second attempt that I put forth to create a

Thunderbolt model.	The first failed miserably, because I built in in

pieces, which didn't fit together very well <grin>.  Needless to say, this

model pleases me to no end.



	Unlike my previous models, this one is heavily texture mapped.	The

actual model is only 80k, with the rest of the 1.4 meg of files being made

up of imagemaps.  Due to the quality of the maps, both extreme close-ups

and high resolutions look good with this model.



	Although the archive includes objects for maneuvering the fighter in

3D, the scene file doesn't include any of those motions - if someone who is

better at animation than I am would like to put together a better scene

file, showing some of the maneuvers possible with the Thunderbolt, I would

be more than happy to include the scene and credit in this archive.



Image files in this archive:

	TB_Airfoil_c.IFF			Atmospheric wing color map

	TB_Airfoil_s.IFF					"        specularity/diffuse map

	TB_Airfoil_Mount_S.IFF		Spec/diff map for atmospheric wing mount

	TB_Body_c.IFF				Main body sideview color map

	TB_Body_s.IFF						 "         specularity map

	TB_Canopy_s.IFF 			Spec/diff map for canopy

	TB_Engine_s.IFF 			Engine (under top wing, attached to body) 
spec/diff map

	TB_Exhaust_Band_c.IFF		Band of color around exhaust (engine)

	TB_Exhaust_Cone_s.IFF		Spec/diff map for exhaust cone

	TB_Nose_c.IFF				Color map for top of nose

	TB_Nose_Gun_s.IFF			Spec/diff map for the gun

	TB_Protrusion_c.IFF 		Color map for protrusion on back top of 
body

	TB_Protrusion_s.IFF 		Spec/diff				 "

	TB_Thruster_Side_c.IFF		Engine/thruster side color map

	TB_Thruster_Side_s.IFF				   "         spec/diff map

	TB_Thruster_Top_s.IFF				 "       top color map

	TB_Wing_Bottom_c.IFF		Bottom wing color map

	TB_Wing_Bottom_s.IFF			 "      spec/diff map

	TB_Wing_Bottom_Protrusion.IFF  Protrusion on lower wing spec/diff map

	TB_Wing_Top_c.IFF			Top wing color map

	TB_Wing_Top_s.IFF				"    spec/diff map

	TB_Wing_Top_Protrusion.IFF	Protrusion on bottom wing spec/diff map

	TB_Wing_Top_Middle_c.IFF	Middle of top wing color map

	TB_Wing_Top_Middle_s.IFF			 "         spec/diff map

Object files in this archive:

	Thrust_Backward.LWO 		|

	Thrust_Down.LWO 			|

	Thrust_Forward.LWO			 } Objects for simulating the thrusts 
from

	Thrust_Left.LWO 			|  the various thrusters on the ship.

	Thrust_Right.LWO			|

	Thrust_Up.LWO				|

	Thunderbolt_Airfoil.LWO 			The atmospheric wing

	Thunderbolt_Body.LWO				The main body

	Thunderbolt_Engine.LWO				One of the thrusters/engines

	Thunderbolt_Thruster_Down.LWO		Downward facing attitude jet

	Thunderbolt_Thruster_Left.LWO		Left facing attitude jet

	Thunderbolt_Thruster_Right.LWO		Right facing attitude jet

	Thunderbolt_Thruster_Up.LWO 		Upward facing attitude jet

	Thunderbolt_Wing_Bottom_Detail.LWO	*thing* on top wing

	Thunderbolt_Wing_Top_Detail.LWO 	*thing* on bottom wing

Scene file in archive:

	Thunderbolt.LWS



	Feel free to make changes to the object but please do not distribute

the modified model.  If you think your changes would improve the model as a

whole, please e-mail me and tell me what you've done.  [to repeat myself]

You may also use this object in your own scenes, but e-mail me if you make

them publicly available.  Thank you.



	Season to taste.



--------------------------------LEGAL-STUFF--------------------------------

These models are being distributed as FREEWARE, meaning I hold the

"copyright" to my work, but am allowing you to use it without charge as

long as copyright CREDIT to Foundation Imaging, Warner Bros., and the

author is noted in productions/animations using this data set.



Not one part of this data set has originated nor has been obtained in any

form, direct or indirect, in part or in whole, from Babylonian Productions,

Inc, Foundation Imaging, Inc., or Warner Bros. They are the exclusive

copyright holders to their original data sets and do not claim authorship

to this independant work of the author.



USE OF THIS DATA SET CONSTITUTES THAT THE USER AGREES THAT USER 
CAN- NOT

LEGALLY CLAIM NOR IMPLY THAT SAID DATA SET REPRESENTS IN ANY 
FORM THE ABOVE

NAMED ENTITIES AND MUST NOT USE DATA SET TO INFRINGE DIRECTLY OR 
INDIRECTLY

UPON THE RIGHTS OF THE ABOVE NAMED ENTITIES NOR USE DATA SET 
FOR COMMERCIAL

OR FOR-PROFIT PURPOSES.



Creation of this data set was strictly for personal, self-educational

purposes and is NOT intended to infringe upon any original material or

concept copyright held by the above named entities.



This document MUST accompany the distribution of this data set. This

archive MUST remain UNALTERED during distribution.