I tried this a while back myself Val and ran into the same problem. It doesn't superimpose the bitmap of the planet over top of the star, it actually replaces it. About all you can do is have the "Balancer" call an image of a star. Every time you make one it will be the same pic. I guess you can write that off as the star size and color is somehow affected by stabalizing the core.
EDIT: Unless you want to make seperate created planets for each color star, each calling a separate image. But there would be no way to make the player pick the right one.
Geoschmo
[ May 15, 2002, 21:13: Message edited by: geoschmo ]