I almost forgot that I had all this old code written! I cooked up some code to render planets, complete with cloud, light, color, and reflection mapping! Ignore the super-lame point-based starfield in the background, that was just a placeholder until I got around to doing up a nice sphere-map texture. My original plan was to do a space-sim (my absolute favorite genre) but after doing lots of thinking I kind of came to the conclusion it was too much work for me at the time. After going back and digging up this screenie it almost makes me want to get back into it. I think I'll do up a little task-list and just remind myself why this wasn't a do-able project for little 'ol me :)