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So I'm not really sure I can handle doing this on my own.

I'm a writer, working on a setting that will hopefully be used as a Roleplay thing (similar to Dungeons and Dragons) as well as a medium for publishing books.

I wanted to create a custom universe to house the setting. The universe would contain two galaxies, and the galaxies would be varied for their specific setting.

In the one galaxy, I really just want to deal with the one planetary/solar system. To have a number of planets with their moons, orbiting a single Sun. Similar in ways to our own solar system.

In the other, I would have multiple systems to work with.

I'm looking for an experienced user in Celestia, that is capable of putting in the data to create this. Someone I can talk with via Email about what I'm looking for. (I want to get the single-system galaxy created first.)

But from the talks, I'd like them to just create the system as best they can. The textures can be basic one-color things to be edited in properly later on.

I can't afford to pay anything for this. But the one that puts in the help for me would get their name credited to it if I get the works published, and make the system map available for fans to browse over the different worlds.

I can be contacted here, but would prefer moving to email once I had someone's interest in helping.

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How can it be copyrighted when I haven't created anything yet??

I think you misunderstand. I'm creating the content, I just need someone who knows all the data stuff to plug in numbers and stuff to take what I create and put it in Celestia.

So if I say "I want a planet this big, with two moons that are such and such size.", they would take it and implement the planet and moons.

@Tenkai

There is information about how to create addons.
Almost everything is explained as you want it to.
The syntax is very little, so you don't actually have to do much checking into dat.

Open both links, the second one is the one about what I said here in this message.

[url]
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catal ... ation.html[/url]

http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/#2.0

I have some stuff that might help.
Orbital Period Calculator (only works on planets orbiting stars) http://tbh-1138.deviantart.com/art/Orbi ... -166958665
TextureGen (needs POV-Ray to run) http://lib.povray.org/searchcollection/ ... rldbuilder
My website (has premade maps, must give credit and I wouldn't mind a link back) http://sites.google.com/site/mapsandsuch/

WORLDBUILDER,

Your POV-Ray texture generator looks like it could be quite useful. Unfortunately, however, it includes no instructions for the novice. How would one go about using it?

selden wrote:WORLDBUILDER,

Your POV-Ray texture generator looks like it could be quite useful. Unfortunately, however, it includes no instructions for the novice. How would one go about using it?

Render the .pov file as it is to render the default Earth-like texture. Most of the controls are in texturegencontrols.inc. Open it to change things like map scale, base pattern, and random seed. To change which texture you want to render, open the .pov file and replace Transparent with any of the textures listed. If you're using any of the Luna# textures, comment out object { EarthMapObject with // to prevent traces of the Earth map being visible in the texture, which has some transparent areas as a method of getting some places to be darker than others. Normally, POV renders an image with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Run it with command line options -w8192 -h4096 and replace 8192 and 4096 with the dimensions you want for your texture. If you have any of your own POV textures you want to render using TextureGen, feel free to #declare them in planetmaps.inc.