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The ship's "fusion core" is actually a separate model -- a disc inside the engine cage. The Millennium Falcon add-on did it that way, and made the engine part "emissive" in the SSC. I'll be spending more time with the Celestia manuals and on-line documentation. The Jupiter 2 project above was no dou...

This was a simple project, but it taught me a few things. I borrowed Rob Sanders' add-on of Rigel Kentaurus A (version 3), since that is where the Robinson family of LOST IN SPACE was headed. The Luna-derived map of Midgard (the planet) was unsatisfactory, so I quickly generated a new map with Flami...

Thanks, Fenerit. Cheetah solved my "legal 3DS" problem, but I'll keep that textures tip in mind as I start to work on the FIREFLY 'verse. I hadn't realized that the Alliance worlds were all in one multi-star system, until the movie made it clear. That makes it a little harder to swallow the idea tha...

This is a happenin' forum. I hadn't expected responses so quickly. Thanks for the suggestions -- Cheetah's export worked. I know it's a "low end" app, but I'm not bigoted.

This could be the encouragement I need to start working on a FIREFLY 'verse add-on.

I decided to learn about making Celestia add-ons by first putting a spacecraft into orbit. The original model was created in Lightwave and features simple colors -- no texture maps, and no polygonal selections (one color per entity). Converting the model to 3DS with different apps resulted in differ...