Phil,
this is a very nice Celestia Mod. Cool work.
In contrary to selden, I would like to see this as an installation package, with it's own starting path and registry entrys - in the current form it interferres with my existing Celestia installation.
Or even better, what to you think about creating a proposal or a white paper of how Mods could be integrated into a working Celestia, a tutorial about creating Mods, or even some work to prepare Celestia to accept Mod plugins additional to it's standard configuration.
And now ... some critical words to 'Fading Suns':
Perhaps you should tell your planet designers to do some adapted specular maps for their planets. By now everything is looking like colored metal balls. There are also several artifacts left, like ISS and Hubble orbiting around some of the planets, and galileo being on his way there - and some of the planets look VERY similar to Jupiter moons.
Two of the four scripts available doesn't work because of bad code, and approaching the central world (I've forgotten the name - something like 'Byzantinicum Secundus') always causes celestia to freeze after a few seconds (on my computer).
As I don't know upon what ideas your worlds are build, I would really like a much more extensive script, that visits all the existing worlds, and tells much more about the history of your universe.
But, besides of that all, many thanks for sharing your work with us.
maxim
I made an add-on available at http://w3.fadingsuns.tk. (runs on 1.3.0). It's BIG, nice, almost finished.
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