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Chris,
Ive noticed that you have added support to load stars from text files in the extras directory. Could you please post some examples or explain how to create these files?

Nice planets. These generators work well.

http://www.circuitpsyche.com/fracplan/

and Franz-Xaver's texture generator in Bruckners addon repositry.

I've tried something similar before. I managed to get it working for an object at the equator. I have no idea for other longitudes and latitudes, and i doubt its possible. I had a 3DS model of some buildings orbiting the earth with its SemiMajorAxis equal to the radius of the earth. "Building" "Sol/...

I think ive got the misunderstanding. Your talking about generating systems on the fly while celestia is running or integrating the fractal stuff with celestia? Or just a single application to do all the generation? Am I on the right track? Ill try to describe a bit better where im heading. Im plann...

Axel, I agree with you on the point of not getting celestia 'dirty'. The work ive been doing is for my mostlyharmless project (a Celestia hack) it will contain Fantasy elements. I think celestia should focus on what we know. Just to clarify, the fractal planet generator is not my work. Mark Santesso...