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Playing around with Celestia for worldbuilding.

Ctesiphon (Beta Pictoris) in the year 4096. A necklace of artificial gas giants surrounds the star, storing hydrogen for use in the post-stelliferous era. Starlifting is done from dynamically-supported orbital rings.

And if you have the OA addons installed, you can reproduce them :)

I think a lot of OA images are screenshots of custom 3D models in Celestia, e.g.:

In the process of writing this I found out about this “game” written as a Celestia addon. It's a story you play by going to specific locations and setting the time to the right date and fast-forwarding to watch events unfold. Pretty unique.

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I wrote a very short guide to getting started with Celestia modding on macOS.

borretti.me/article/addi...

Bro how is it so good at this