Ideas for post 1.7 era

Internals

1. Investigate memory mapped files instead of read()

External dependencies

Rendering

1. Simulate gravitational lensing
2. Improve galaxy and globular rendering
3. Support rogue planets (not tied to barycenters)
4. Support rings (disks) for stars
5. From john71 on the forum:

I think a lens flare would be nice,

Also a saturation/brightness feature inside the running program would also help to achieve a more photorealistic view.

Some kind of automatic water reflection effect would be also nice when we are on the surface of planets...

6. Improve CustomOrbits/CustomRotations
7. Improve brown dwarf rendering (e.g. have cool stars be illuminated by other stars rather than being emissive)
8. Use bump/normal maps for displacement, not just shadows

Addons

1. Allow reloading addon files