Porkjet

Gonna miss you greatly. I can safely say that your game has changed my life and It's weird to imagine KSP without you . Thank you so much for it and everything you did! I wish you all the best for the future and your next projects!

Oh yea that's a mistake. apologies! Gonna add it back.

Probably. Tho there are some difficulties due to the way the flight scene is composed. Also since we're stuck with Dx9, we lack some features that make realtime probes look better, smooth transitions between mip levels and 'edge fixup'. What's probably a better way is using premade cubemaps that are switched depending on situation (landed, low orbit, etc) perhaps even per biome. They don't really have to precisely reflect the surrounding, approximating the general colors of terrain and sky will do. However there's still the problem that 'up' and 'down' are quite relative in KSP, and the cubemap will be rotated depending on where you are on the planet. (at equator everythings on the side) It should be possible to modify the lighting model to be able to manipulate the cubemap 'rotation' tho. That's something I'll look into for the next update. We can't use gradient ambient in flight scene because as mentioned above, there are no defined 'up' and 'downs' in the flight scene, at the equator of a planet the ambient gradient would be tilted 90°. Reflection probes aren't wasteful at all, we'll probably only need a single one in the flight scene, and ambient is only one part of the visual benefits it brings. There's no reason to switch to PBR at all without reflection probes.

They are in the assetbundles unitypackage, you have to import the package. They're now located in Squadcore and not the part tools directory, make sure to remove your previous installation of Part tools to avoid duplicate shaders.

Hmm I think everything was mentioned here or there but yea, no proper documentation listing it all up yet afaik

Update April 6th. 2016 - updated shaders to latest game changes (1.1.2) - moved all shaders to Squadcore folder, without duplicates - removed some unused and experimental shaders (for now)

A new download with updated shaders will be posted any minute. LightWrapped/Specular basically does what the name suggests, it uses a custom lighting model that "wraps" light further around an object. It was used on some new IVA props as a cheap way to simulate light bouncing in interiors, but I probably won't use it any further and lightmap props instead. Might be useful for other things tho. Other uses include fake subsurface scattering like on skin, or other slightly translucent or soft materials ScrollingUnlit and Standard_Bumped are experimental and nowhere used yet Create a Tag "Icon_Hidden" and add it to the flag mesh

A friend said it to me jokingly and it stuck. No meaning behind it or anything. The flying pig reference thing I actually only understood a long while later but it seemed to give it some sense

Realism aside, I think managing RCS just makes things more interresting. And I mean not just for docking. With reaction wheels you never have to worry about RCS fuel or positioning of thrusters during spacecraft construction. It lets you skip a lot of interresting problems to solve

A reflection probe for each part is a bit expensive, would be better if you spanwed one per vessel at the camera anchor or CoM and increase it's bounds to cover the whole thing. Might be easier for you too.