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Bryce isn't very good as a modeling tool (though within it's own "world" you can achieve some fantastic results). I'd forgotten about Amapi, but the learning curve is rather out of this lazy modeler's range of effort :wink: And just to be a nag - I've found some good resources for adding planets to ...

I don't know of any free ones, but Rhino is fairly affordable if you can get a student ID and it exports 3ds without a problem.

and 3D Cafehas a HUGE library of stuff. Not all of it is 3DS, but alot is.

3ds - cool. Now all I need to do is the following: Get Celestia to NOT cause my Windows 2000 pro machine to reboot when i shut it down, and Find out how to create systems around other stars. phpBB is the software that runs this very forum. It's HIGHLY "administrator freindly" and free. I use it for ...

I was using CHview to map out the galaxy as seen through the focus of a sci-fi story line I'm developing, but Celestia will enable me to (hopefully) create teh various systems my stories depend on. If there is a thread that will point me to how to create and edit systems around specific stars, I'd a...