I decided to contribute to Celestia with a little app which saves the lazy among us (starting with ME!
) a few agonizing finger taps on a keyboard. Chris Laurel's conversion routines, 3dstocmod (converts a 3ds model to celestia model - cmod - format) and cmodfix (tweaks the cmod file in a variety of ways) have been wrapped in a GUI for windows and deposited on the Celestia Motherlode and appear for download on the Utilities page. Please read the readme which is chock full of apology and caveat and let me know if it is worth the effort (not much effort really - just a dialog box and a few check boxes) and is in any way a benefit to you. I have already corrected a few minor problems which you may not even encounter in standard usage and added a button to bring up the about box which i had neglected in this go round. If there is sufficient interest and feedback i will upload the new version.
Thanks!
Sean
Utitlity page - http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catal ... ities.html
Chris Laurel's Utility page - http://www.celestiaproject.net/~claurel/celestia/cmodtools/