Here's a new tool I've been working on the whole morning and noon (time zone: CEST): CmodSpritesGen (or CMOD-SG)
It generates - as its name says - sprites models as .cmod models
Readme and license: Everything in the zip package
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CmodSpritesGen (CMOD-SG) - generate sprites models for Celestia
CmodSpritesGen (CMOD-SG) - generate sprites models for Celestia
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Crew: "We are orbiting a black hole."
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
Whoa! That's ingenious! 
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Is it possible to connect CmodSpritesGen to SDSS DR17 somehow?
https://www.sdss.org/dr17/data_access/tools/
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It would be also cool to connect the Gaia Sky database to this utility:
https://gaia.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/gaiasky/docs/3.1.1/Data-catalogs-formats.html
Added after 6 minutes 49 seconds:
Is it possible to connect CmodSpritesGen to SDSS DR17 somehow?
https://www.sdss.org/dr17/data_access/tools/
Added after 6 minutes 18 seconds:
It would be also cool to connect the Gaia Sky database to this utility:
https://gaia.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/gaiasky/docs/3.1.1/Data-catalogs-formats.html
john71 wrote:Is it possible to connect CmodSpritesGen to SDSS DR17 somehow?
No, but I'm thinking about a way to do this.
john71 wrote:It would be also cool to connect the Gaia Sky database to this utility:
This gives me an idea: a Gaia data catalog extractor
- but that will be lots of sun-masses of code 
Crew: "We are orbiting a black hole."
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)