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Ported to OBJ from the model included in the fan-created Babylon 5 Model Pack (multiple contributors) for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind. It began in the Earth year 2257 with the founding of the last of the Babylon stations, located deep in neutral space. It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats, and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place ... but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last best hope for peace .... Babylon 5 was a dream given form, a dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds could live side by side in mutual respect .... Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story.

- Centauri ambassador Londo Molari, "The Gathering" (series pilot movie)

Babylon 5 (1993-1998, officially abbreviated as B5) remains to this day the best traditional science fiction space opera yet aired on American television, as well as widely considered to be one of the best Western television space operas of all time. There is so much that can be, has been, and is still being said about it by others elsewhere that I'll let you look all of that up for yourself. Like Londo Molari, I too was there when the pilot movie "The Gathering" was first aired in its original version back in 1993, and I knew right away this was going to be one hell of a ride for a dyed-in-the-wool space opera buff like me. It was, too (big grin). It is with great joy that I am opening the new Babylon 5 gallery of my online edition of Mandel's Fighting Starships with the namesake of the show itself: the Earth Alliance space station Babylon 5, the fifth and last in the Babylon series. She's a beauty, isn't she? Furthermore, this particular model weighs in at just under 30,000 polys. Not enough for you ultra high-poly masochists, I'm afraid, but more than enough for the video game for which it was created back in the day. It still looks good even today when you use it for medium-to-long range distance shots.

No, I'm not making my port of this particular model available for general download, nor will I the rest of the fan-created SFC B5 model pack. If you want them, go get the pack and port them yourselves. You can still find it on places such as NexusMods and Lone Bullet, and almost all of them (save this one, awwwwww!) port quite easily with the SFC model format plug-in for the old Milkshape 3D modeling program. There also many other free fan efforts out there at recreating the B5 space station in digital form (along with one retail effort so far for a cancelled game) that you can find with your favorite Internet search engine to port and play with on your own. I personally recommend Katase's SketchUp version in particular, especially if you plan on using your ported B5 model with the free XNALara XPS posing program, because like this one Katase's looks very good for its poly count. You can get it from Google's 3D Warehouse at the link below; use the Collada DAE download option and that way you'll have a 3D model in DAE format that most good 3D software (such as Blender) will import with no trouble, or you can take an extra step and convert it to OBJ with the free ModelConverterX utility. Anyway, here's the link:

3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model…

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

P.S. - For those of you needing a high-quality CG model of the Babylon 5 space station, try the Poser/Daz version over at ShareCG:

www.sharecg.com/v/84961/relate…

Description

Ported to OBJ from the model included in the fan-created Babylon 5 Model Pack (multiple contributors) for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind. It began in the Earth year 2257 with the founding of the last of the Babylon stations, located deep in neutral space. It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats, and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place ... but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last best hope for peace .... Babylon 5 was a dream given form, a dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds could live side by side in mutual respect .... Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story.

- Centauri ambassador Londo Molari, "The Gathering" (series pilot movie)

Babylon 5 (1993-1998, officially abbreviated as B5) remains to this day the best traditional science fiction space opera yet aired on American television, as well as widely considered to be one of the best Western television space operas of all time. There is so much that can be, has been, and is still being said about it by others elsewhere that I'll let you look all of that up for yourself. Like Londo Molari, I too was there when the pilot movie "The Gathering" was first aired in its original version back in 1993, and I knew right away this was going to be one hell of a ride for a dyed-in-the-wool space opera buff like me. It was, too (big grin). It is with great joy that I am opening the new Babylon 5 gallery of my online edition of Mandel's Fighting Starships with the namesake of the show itself: the Earth Alliance space station Babylon 5, the fifth and last in the Babylon series. She's a beauty, isn't she? Furthermore, this particular model weighs in at just under 30,000 polys. Not enough for you ultra high-poly masochists, I'm afraid, but more than enough for the video game for which it was created back in the day. It still looks good even today when you use it for medium-to-long range distance shots.

No, I'm not making my port of this particular model available for general download, nor will I the rest of the fan-created SFC B5 model pack. If you want them, go get the pack and port them yourselves. You can still find it on places such as NexusMods and Lone Bullet, and almost all of them (save this one, awwwwww!) port quite easily with the SFC model format plug-in for the old Milkshape 3D modeling program. There also many other free fan efforts out there at recreating the B5 space station in digital form (along with one retail effort so far for a cancelled game) that you can find with your favorite Internet search engine to port and play with on your own. I personally recommend Katase's SketchUp version in particular, especially if you plan on using your ported B5 model with the free XNALara XPS posing program, because like this one Katase's looks very good for its poly count. You can get it from Google's 3D Warehouse at the link below; use the Collada DAE download option and that way you'll have a 3D model in DAE format that most good 3D software (such as Blender) will import with no trouble, or you can take an extra step and convert it to OBJ with the free ModelConverterX utility. Anyway, here's the link:

3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model…

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

P.S. - For those of you needing a high-quality CG model of the Babylon 5 space station, try the Poser/Daz version over at ShareCG:

www.sharecg.com/v/84961/relate…