After a long Thursday I finally got finished on the solar system animation. I had some with building a point light source and got done by doing individual lightings for each planet. I use directional lights for that and the result is almost as if the sun would be a point light source. Cool 
You can download the animation and have a quick lock in my work. At this place, special thanks to JHT for the great Planetary Pixel Emporium where I found all the textures!
Here is the download:
Solar System Animation Setup
You can control the animation by the following mouse / keyboard actions:
- F5-F8: Change the subdivisions of the planet model
- F12: Reset the scene
- Tabulator: Switch camera view to the next planet
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Numbers 0-9: Directly select a planet
- 0: Sun (shows the whole scene)
- 1: Mercury
- 2: Venus
- 3: Earth
- 4: Mars
- 5: Jupiter
- 6: Saturn
- 7: Uranus
- 8: Neptune
- 9: Pluto
- By holding the left mouse button down you can turn the camera around.
Have fun with it and let me know if you like it or if you have any ideas for improvements.
