so are these stars places you can enter and visit and fly around in? like actual solar systems? or you need to generatea solar system to go with each of these stars now?
The plan is to implement a jumpdrive system that lets you travel across the galaxy, from one solar system to another. Solar system contents will also be generated at the moment the player enters them. That's next on my todo list.
The idea really is to make a living, rotating solar system with the bodies gravitationally bound together. I already have the game framework in place with stationary planets. I tried it to make them orbit the star, but I bumped into some orbit deterioration problems (mainly because my decision to use deltatimer instead of fixed rate logic). When I work around that problem, I'll make the them rotate again. E pur si muove! ;)
Thank you all for your comments. When it comes to 3d, while I'm not going to make this 3d, feel free to download the code yourself from the Subversion repository and dissect it. It's not all that complex and should be easily adaptable for 3d. Just remember, the code is GPL'ed so remember to show everyone else what you've done with it.