For the dyson ball, it could be simple 300 mile wide asteroids until 0.990 comes out, And for the texture assignment comment I made a while ago, here is a another way to make textures on planets, use this
Yes I know how to attach textures to planets, I just don't really understand why you want this feature? Space Engine has the ability to create stunning textures on its own where every planet is not only unique but also beautiful, but you would rather have me replace every texture with a pre-made one?
If I wanted to do that, I would need a separate folder containing the textures, and if I wanted to keep the file size small (because you can only post small files here and for quick download times), then there could only be a few, low-quality images packaged with the generator. So every planet generated would pull from the same few pictures and they would look low quality. In my opinion, that takes away the fun of generating interesting and unique places.
So to get around that, I would need hundreds of high-quality planet textures,
or I would need to generate my own textures (which I can't do and Space Engine does anyway). I
maybe could get that many textures, but the file size would be huge at that point, and I can't post it here and it would take an hour to download with normal internet speeds.
Don't get me wrong, it's not that I haven't thought about your suggestion, but it isn't practical for me to do this, and I don't think it really fits the "generator" concept. It is too structured to be interesting. The easiest solution is that if someone finds a system that they like and they want to save it and add their own textures, they don't need my program to help them with that.
As for the Dyson Ball, that is still planned but will most definitely wait until SE .99 (I feel like the release is close anyway, fingers crossed). Right now I am working on overhauling name generation as that is the only system that will not be affected by SE .99's new class system (meaning I don't have to re-write it when .99 comes out). I hope to get that up this weekend, but college finals are coming up and I've been busy. After that, I want to get some system in place that supports life, even if it is temporary.