Your feedback is appreciated. The first bug is a known issue and related to extensions renaming, which is not yet fully completed. In some cases a star texture is not pulled from the system description file where the corresponding textures have been renamed, rather an auxiliary texture is supplied by the engine which's extension is still hard coded. I didn't yet get around to understanding exactly the flow but this artifact will be fixed when techniques are merged to the svn head, since they are still using the old extensions and I wouldn't like to always rename the sources in techniques when testing, unless klauss synchronizes his branch with the head
or I'll find another easy way to do it.
The second artifact has been known for a long time already and comes from not using z-buffers on distant objects and will be fixed with the new techniques which are currently under development.
