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I downloaded Celestia because I stumbled upon it by accident, and after spending a few hours exploring the known universe (At least known by celesta) I did a bit of research on add-ons. However, there is one problem with it, the add-ons I had hoped to find do not exist, and unfortunately I have no experience with making 3D Models, texturing, or anything of the sort.

So, let me first start off by saying, if this is out of place, please correct me, I didn't see anything against requests in the rules.

Now, onto my request. In 1979 there was a Japanese animation known as Mobile Suit Gundam, which is still producing squeals, Prequels and spin-offs today. Please, before I'm harassed for something anime, please understand that I don't want anything to do with popular series like: Gundam Wing, Gundam Seed, and Gundam 00, the objects I want are strictly tied to the original show, and it's closest spin-offs. Also, I feel there is no need to do the robots from the series, since I just want the geographical figures. (Is geographical the word used for space? Oh well, you get what I mean.)

The objects I'm looking for will be listed below, and with them some very in depth research done by a wonderful fan of the series.

The Article: "It's Life, GM, But Not As We Know It!" by Dafydd Neal Dyar talks about large Space Colonies, based off the O'Neil Cylinder. This object is number 1 on my list, since I would love to see the Earth Sphere cluttered with these wonderful Sci-Fi creations. Further reading into this article "Home, Home in Lagrange" Shows maps of where these items are located around earth, and the theoretic science explaining how they can exist there.

Next on my list are textures of the moon, to show the inhabited locations of space colonists. The two major ones are located in the craters: Cayley, where the famous lunar landing occurred [The colony named Von Braun]. The second main colony is located in the Tsiolkovsky crater [Known as Granada]. Again, the wonderful author of the first two articles has another article pertaining to this, which can be found here: "Inconstant Moon"

The third most important structures are the asteroid bases. While needed resources to construct the magnificent colonies, humans needed a place to get metal. So, by attaching pulses to asteroids, they could be brought into Earth's orbit for a set amount of time, until they where used up, or converted into colonies. The asteroids that I am mostly Interested are known as: Luna II, A Baoa Qu, Solomon, and Axis. Yet Again, a detailed article can be viewed here: "Upon This Rock."

The articles contain pictures, and if more information is needed I can scour the internet for it. I don't have much to offer for these being made, and can understand if nobody cares to make them. If there is anything that I can offer, then feel free to ask, also, I do hope you enjoy the reads, they are very interesting for anyone interested in space colonizing theory, and alternate histories.

For a complete List of Dafydd Neal Dyar's articles, visit his website Mobile Suit Gundam: High Frontier

Well,

I don't think that very much people will make you the models for the series, just because you ask. Because if they were total fans of they would have already done so.

But a first approximation that you yourself could do would be to search the forum for the keywords "Lagrange points" and "O'Neil" there should be some answers and other addons.
These addons you could try to adapt to your needs. It is not as hard as looks like, well okay it needs some basic ideas of how things in space work and the form of Celestias files, but there also exists documentation (here and on the Motherlode) and threads here on the forum about the normal problems that you probably will encounter.
And you will get a lot more help, if you ask specific questions, why something doesn't work as expceted, instead of asking if someone could create all of your wanted items.

The next step, after you have started in this way and made some pictures, would be to post these and some description of Celestia in some Gundam fan forums or gundam 3D forums, asking the people there for help or explaining in the highest tones how cool Celestia is for modelling Gundam in 3D.

This way you would get the enthusiasts perhaps hooked and the models made like only real enthusiasts can do.

Just my 2 cents.

Best regards,

Guckytos

You might also visit some of the anime and SF modeling Web forums. I suspect that someone must have created models of the type that interest you. SciFi-Meshes.com is one such.

Welcome!

That could be an interesting addon. But wait is the pict on the main page of Dyar straights site done with Celestia? (I remember vaguely such model...)
As pointed by Guckytos, you can create a base addon with all the locations and some placeholder models. Perso I would be happy to help with the models but my todo list is still too long and time is missing. Anyway if you are not in hurry later (probably much later!) and if you don't find anything I could give a try to the asteroids part...

The O'Neill colony satellites aren't quite science fiction, just predictions ahead of their time.

One of Celestia's regulars, Chuft-Captain, has been working on an O'Neill colony addon for quite some time. I'm not sure of its availability, though.

First of all, Thank you to everyone for giving such timely and informative responses!

I'm glad to see that my post didn't leave a bad taste in anyone's mouths, but instead I was given a few option to go towards. If I manage to get some free time, perhaps I will do my homework and learn how to make my own models for Celestia, and gladly share them. (But from the looks of my schedule this is a big 'if')

But I will spends some more time looking around the boards, as well as some of the other resources that where addressed in the above posts, hopefully I will find what I'm looking for.

Again, thank you very much for your posts, they are much appreciated.