How do you build your own Solar System?

[Zeto]

I've been playing around with Celestia, but I am unsure exactly how to script new bits into the Universe. How do you build you own Solar System? That's what I really want to do. The user guide that I downloaded only features commands that change the luminosity of stars that already exist and so on- so any help would be great.

Forgive me if I'm pretty stupid- I'm really bad at working things like this out. Can anyone explain simply how to do it from scratch? Or link me to a page or something?

Thank you for your time in advance.

[selden]

Have you read http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celest ... intro.html ?

[Zeto]

Yes. I have. It seemed only to deal with adding expansions that someone else has written though, which wouldn't be much of a problem for me. I was interested in having assistance actually writing my own addons to build my own star system.

That sort of page is exactly what I'm looking for though.

[selden]

Then you didn't read the first two examples carefully enough. They explain how to create a new star and how to create a planet orbiting around it.

[RHAS]

There is a prohgram somewhere called StarGen it creates a random solarsystem.ssc file for about 30 stars if im not mistaken..
You can use that for training once you have such a ssc file you can start painting planets.