Gameslinx

Version 1.3.0 released for KSP 1.8.1. After 7 months of non stop work, Beyond Home 1.3 is now ready for you all to play! The changelog is huge: Beyond Home 1.3 Changelog (Full) See the bottom of the changelog for general tweaks, fixes, optimization etc. Enjoy - Donations are never asked for, but if you are looking for a way to support me, then feel free to buy me a coffee - Donation link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=tuveeathome%40gmail.com&lc=CY&item_name=Gameslinx&no_note=0&currency_code=GBP&bn=PP-DonationsBF%3Abtn_donateCC_LG.gif%3ANonHostedGuest - Planets: - Rhode - Much more detailed normal map - Ocean-shelf colour map fading - Fixed space centre colouring - Matched space centre texture to new terrain textures - Reduced render distance of scatters (for performance!!) - Remade the surface texture - Fixed blending with ocean and shores - Adjusted scatterer atmosphere fades - Adjusted scatterer ocean colouring - Completely overhauled clouds - New aurora texture - Adjusted aurora colour - Added variance to volumetric clouds - Adjusted ocean density very slightly - Added biome "regions" for POIs - Fixed atmosphere rim colour (non scatterer) - Anger - Full suite of terrain scatters - Added monuments - Full retexture - Fixed pixellation - Fixed normalmap induced pixellation - Increased normal map strength - Improved terrain variance in general - Better proportioned terrain - Reworked colour map - Reduced DDS artifacting on colour map - Fixed biome names - Redone biome map with appropriate weighting - Inclined orbit by 3 degrees - Adjusted SMA to match Fury's new rings - Scindo - Added terrain scatters - Added canyons - Added craters - Added volcano - Full retexture - Improved detail on the normal map - After community feedback, kept the style of the original colour map - Different steep texture - Remade biome map - Fixed clipping into ground with landing gear - Fixed texture seams - Fixed steep texture tiling - Drohze - Added terrain scatters - Increased frequency of canyons - Hugely increased frequency of craters - Full retexture - More colourful colour map (less dres-like) - Higher resolution normal map - Reworked biome map - Fixed steep texture tiling - Fixed wheel friction on surface - Dynasty - Removed dead trees, they sucked - Slight improvement to terrain - Slight colour map changes - Increased frequency of ice - Adjusted biome map to these changes - Fixed blend between land and ice caps - Fixed missing steep texture - Rock - Complete overhaul - Improved crystal terrain scatters - Improved frequency of terrain scatters - Added additional terrain scatter - Reduced frequency of smaller terrain scatters - Improved PQSMod terrain for more rounded peaks - Full re-make due to community feedback - Red-brown texture as now a metallic world - Added craters with ejecta to the maps - Reworked biome map - Higher resolution normal map - Fixed steep texture tiling - Fixed region banding for crystal terrain scatters - Gateway - Brand new undersea and on-sea scatters - Full remaster of Gateway's maps - Lowered normal map strength - Brand new ring texture - Moved rings to slightly different height - Inclined rings slightly - Added 3 different cloud layers - Clouds spin at different speeds - Proper gas giant banding - Added new aurora - Adjusted aurora colour - Adjustments to atmosphere colour - Adjustments to scatterer fade altitudes - Kohm - Added crashed ships - Added crashed ship interiors - Adjusted blend between sea and shores - Improved layer volume - Fixed off-ground terrain scatters - Ansia - Crystalline terrain scatters - Eidos - Ghostly, transparent terrain scatters - Removed the garbage old terrain scatters - Fury - New ring texture - Adjusted ring thiccness - Adjusted ring width - Added arched terrain scatters - Proper lava texture - Improved normal map - Aurora - Lava-bergs now sit on lava properly - Fixed blend between sea and land - Lua - Inceased terraformer spawn chance - Recreated back Lua Base - Reduced costs of Lua Base - Increased broken terraformer spawn chance - Reworked terraformer design - Terraformers emit light - New terraformer crystal texture - Lowered atmosphere alpha - Lowered atmosphere exposure - Thinned atmosphere sky - Fixed atmosphere rim when looking up - Adjusted fade distances - Re-enabled spherical mesh to fix clouds - Fixed inverted normals on the terraformersupport.obj - Hydrus - Added low altitude fog - Adjusted spawn rates for floating islands - Fixed ocean colour - Increased ocean density - New detail texture - Increased detail texture tiling - Enabled spherical mesh to fix clouds - Adjusted exposure and brightness but cannot remember what I did lol - Ash - Added mining outpost bases - Added procedural mining bases - Removed orange around lava, it was ugly - Darkened terrain at low levels - Improved lava texture - Vasto - Added light emitter terrain scatters - Added SNOW! (EVE) - Jade - Re-rendered normal map - Cleaner colour map - Fixed normal map strength - Fixed normal map pixellation - Verna - Added CITIES! - Proper terrain scatters - Low level fog - Improved cloud textures - Added detail texture - Reduced detail texture tiling - Wheels clipping into terrain - Armstrong - Low level fog - Added bone structures (Are they? People seem to like thinking they are) - Reworked biome map - Added flat areas, like Minmus - Slight heightmap adjustment for flat areas - Lond - Full rework - New biome map - New colour map - Fixed horrible PQS - Fixed seams - Eterna - Added... snowmen? - Tribute - Mild remaster - More eroded surface - Adjusted biome map accordingly - Better lava texture - Fixed EVE atmosphere glow - Tau - Added new aurora texture - Janus - Full rework - New textures for Janus to match it with Gateway's overhaul - General: - Added atmospheres for non-scatterer installs to match the scatterer versions of the planets - Added proper AFGs for the planets when scatterer is not installed - Deprecated EVE glows in favour of the atmosphere rims - Added "installchecker" which will detect issues with your installs - Terrain: - Added 50 terrain textures for use on scatters or planets - Support for 1.8.x terrain shader - Updated all planets for the 1.8.x terrain shader - Remade textures accordingly for the 1.8.x shader (won't work on previous shaders? Dunno) - Adjusted tiling for every planet - Adjusted albedo for every planet - Adjusted contrast for every planet The terrain portion of the changelog is tiny but it has the biggest changes on the planets. So, yeah Well done for reading this far by the way, it's probably incredibly boring. I spent the longest time on the terrain textures, bloody difficult they are! - Visuals: - Re-enabled spherical mesh for some scatterer bodies since it would cause the clouds to light up in the dark - Created a 16k cloud texture and two 8k textures for main clouds - Created 3 gas giant textures for Gateway and Janus - Created aurora textures for Gateway, Rhode, Tau, etc - Optimization: - Removed unused scatters - Removed unused textures - Removed unused MTL files - Reduced some biome map resolutions - Enabled GPU Instancing for scatters, but unsure if it works or not. Better performance for low end CPUs - Reduced layer volume for EVE clouds and increased the size instead - Reduced some planets' scatter render distances - Other: - Added installation checker. Source code on Github because SkWoD SAyS So - Added new Skybox Thank you for downloading Beyond Home, and for getting this far down the changelog. If you have any issues, contact me on the KSP forums as "Gameslinx", or Discord as "Gameslinx#0544". Enjoy Beyond Home! Quick PS: If you have problems downloading the update when it's fresh, please let me know! I ran the update past my beta testers, but there is a chance I could have messed up in the release. Thank you!

I plan to release BH for 1.8.1 in the next few days. The changelog is already 300+ lines long and I need a break, I've been at it non stop for 7 months! 1.9.0 will come later after problems have been ironed out, but I'll have my work cut out for me again unfortunately

I have some gripes with the terrain textures 1.8 introduced a new terrain shader, and now there's another one. A lot of people who work on planets spent weeks updating to the shader introduced in 1.8, and their work is now null and void now that the 1.9 update introduced a superior one Secondly, this new shader requires another map to function. To work effectively it'll need to be at minimum 2048 x 1024 for large planets if the shorelines are to be accurate. For mods like JNSQ built at a large scale, these maps will need to be much larger Surely there wasn't a better way to implement this shader? I'd be happy with an altitude curve. Or, alternatively, use the biome maps that already correspond to regions on the terrain and lerp between those regions? Or use a colour range on the colour map, such that you can set a grass colour for the grass terrain texture, and a desert colour for the desert terrain texture As much as I like the changes coming to the terrain (which we've needed for a while) I just don't think this is the way forward. I've read through the "for modders" documentation on how to use it, but I'm not convinced it is an effective use of large amounts of system resources. The ram requirement will go up by 20% for a planet mod with 4 maps already if this is the same resolution... Please please please clarify if I've gotten anything wrong. I do want to use this shader and it has massive potential, I think the implementation is just a little off!

A sneak preview of some of the terrain you will be able to encounter now...

A bunch of planet pictures without visual mods installed! I know I've neglected the folk who were unable to run scatterer and EVE, so at last here is my love for you guys:

It works on 1.8.1 if you use the updated versions of Kopernicus and Scatterer. I'll be bringing it up to date properly soon

I've decided to do some big improvements to the planets if you don't have visual mods installed. Thanks to @JadeOfMaar he's put together some amazing Sunflares that work without Scatterer or EVE. I've spent some time remaking the atmosphere rims for people who don't use visual mods so that you guys can enjoy the planets as close to their scatterer counterparts as much as possible! There are no visual mods in these pictures:

Congratulations on the update and for the continued work on Kopernicus

I don't know. I don't use Rescale, it might be better to read up on the documentation, or ask for help in the mod thread

Some of them haven't been added yet. You need to make sure your scatter density is at 100%. Then, you need to find then on the planet. Stuff like floating islands on Hydrus are easy to find, near the mountains.

When Kopernicus 1.8 releases and when I'm ready

Yes, Beyond Home 1.3 will be on GitHub and Spacedock. I'm still unsure about ckan because some people are having issues with it, and I have my reasons for disliking ckan, but yes - you'll be able to get BH 1.3 on GitHub first.

Do you mean support for KEX? I can but it isn't out for 1.8 yet so I can't test it.

Something big is coming New sunflares that actually show the stars in all their glory!

It's teaser / wallpaper time again! Cities and crashed ships coming soon

I'm still learning how to use Adobe Illustrator, which is what people use to make the DV charts, but there is one planned

Like rocks, structures, etc? Some mods already do

0.054 should work - Did you download via CKAN? I might need a KSP.log if you can send it. Thank you! If you downloaded through CKAN, try manually installing it

The Lua base works again thanks to a Kerbal Konstructs update! I've completely redesigned the base and reduced the costs for opening its facilities.

To those reading this far into the forum - What are you most excited for in BH 1.3?

Sure! That's awesome

Huh?

I'm going over some of the Kerbol system planets and bringing them up to scratch. This is Tylo!

I'm waiting on Kopernicus to update. I'm not the person to ask because it's 100% out of my control. 0 planet mods work on 1.8.1 but this will be updated as soon as Kopernicus is released for it. You need a scientist on board and you need science data physically inside the lab. It works fine for me on my orbital station around Ash, but I'm not a massive expert

I just released an update that improves the sunflare, fixes the scatterer rim on Solitude, and fixes all the wrong terrain texture file paths. Enjoy! There will be improvements after this, such as 1.8 terrain, when I find the motivation