Take another look at KSPRC, it does use Texture Replacer for planet textures, not Kopernicus. But yeah, you just drop in the textures in TR, list it in the config, and bob's you're uncle. Pretty sure TR has an example config download that has comments explaining everything.
I'm currently running the TR side of KSPRC, and the EVE side of SVE 1.0.3, it's working great and really beautiful. Here's some shots with that setup (and GemFX): http://imgur.com/a/V7srv