[KSP 1.12.3] Astronomer's Visual Pack - Beyond (v4.13 - July 17th, 2022)

[Caerfinon]

2 minutes ago, Anubis-X said:

with no other mods installed

Scatterer and Module Manager are dependencies of AVP. You also need one of the AVP texture packs (2K, 4K or 8K) for it to work.

[Anubis-X]

thanks

[themaster401]

For those of you willing to sacrifice your relationship with your GPU and RAM, here's the 43k Kerbin cloud enhancement.

[Motokid600]

I noticed the 43k files dont overwrite anything. These clouds are additional to the current ones?

Edit: Indeed they are. They look quite nice. Though I must say its ALOT of clouds.

Edited May 9, 2021 by Motokid600

[dresoccer4]

Can someone please help me understand the instalation guide? The links in step 1 and 2 go to the same github page with the texture packs. I thought step 1 was supposed to get the Astronomers Visual Pack and step 2 was texture pack?

Is anyone else confused by this? I ONLY see the texture packs?

EDIT: and the link to EVE is broken

Edited May 9, 2021 by dresoccer4

[Spaceman.Spiff]

12 minutes ago, dresoccer4 said:

Can someone please help me understand the instalation guide? The links in step 1 and 2 go to the same github page with the texture packs. I thought step 1 was supposed to get the Astronomers Visual Pack and step 2 was texture pack?

Is anyone else confused by this? I ONLY see the texture packs?

EDIT: and the link to EVE is broken

I recommend installing CKAN as it will make the installation much easier. It will grab all the dependencies and keep them up to date for you. 

18 hours ago, Motokid600 said:

I noticed the 43k files dont overwrite anything. These clouds are additional to the current ones?

Edit: Indeed they are. They look quite nice. Though I must say its ALOT of clouds.

how is the performance

[dresoccer4]

For anyone else confused with the incorrect installation instructions, I think I got it to work. For step 1, use this link instead: https://github.com/themaster402/AstronomersVisualPack/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

That'll give you the necessary parts!

[Rover 6428]

hey, Im having trouble with getting the mod to work.

I downloaded the 4k version + optional kerbin clouds. I also have the latest scatterer, module manager and eve installed. However when I run it only scatterer seems to work.

I'm not sure, but I feel like EVE is refusing to use the textures of the mod

Edited May 10, 2021 by Rover 6428

[rudemario]

Does anyone know if it's possible to somehow reduce the cloud layer from space, and not change anything else like what a planet looks like from the ground or while flying into it? The one problem I have is I can't see where to land on Laythe!

What looks like land isn't land, and I've had to look up the biome map and find a little piece of land way at the bottom and use that to extrapolate potentially where the piece of land I want to land is on.

Anyone know how to turn down the cloud layer from space and make the ground more visible without severely altering the sunrise/sunset/cloud characteristics down below?

Thanks!

[themaster401]

 

On 5/10/2021 at 12:44 AM, dresoccer4 said:

For anyone else confused with the incorrect installation instructions, I think I got it to work. For step 1, use this link instead: https://github.com/themaster402/AstronomersVisualPack/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

That'll give you the necessary parts!

Looks like uploading the 43k clouds unintentionally made the texture release the latest release lol. I have rectified this, apologies for the inconvenience.

On 5/11/2021 at 2:09 AM, rudemario said:

Does anyone know if it's possible to somehow reduce the cloud layer from space, and not change anything else like what a planet looks like from the ground or while flying into it? The one problem I have is I can't see where to land on Laythe!

What looks like land isn't land, and I've had to look up the biome map and find a little piece of land way at the bottom and use that to extrapolate potentially where the piece of land I want to land is on.

Anyone know how to turn down the cloud layer from space and make the ground more visible without severely altering the sunrise/sunset/cloud characteristics down below?

Thanks!

You can open the EVE GUI in the tracking station, navigate to CloudsManager > AstronomersVisualPack/AVP_Configs/clouds > Laythe, select either cloud layer, change the last value in RGBA (alpha, or transparency) to a lower value, and hit Apply and Save if the cloud density is a hassle.

[Hohmannson]

On 5/11/2021 at 2:09 AM, rudemario said:

I have is I can't see where to land on Laythe

A less intrusive solution can be installing SCANSat - you can enable radar map or biome map as an overlay over the planet in map screen and plan your descent accordingly. I use that on visuals-heavy packs and bodies.

[Aryeonos]

What files can I suspend to keep the vanilla skybox without breaking anything else? I'm using the CKAN installation if that makes a difference.

[Iodyne]

4 hours ago, Aryeonos said:

What files can I suspend to keep the vanilla skybox without breaking anything else? I'm using the CKAN installation if that makes a difference.

You should just be able to delete the whole GameData/AstronomersVisualPack/AVP_Skybox folder. (Delete after the texture installation to also get rid of the image files.

[Aryeonos]

18 hours ago, Iodyne said:

You should just be able to delete the whole GameData/AstronomersVisualPack/AVP_Skybox folder. (Delete after the texture installation to also get rid of the image files.

Worked without a hitch, thank you!

[lifesuckslmao]

i had paralax i just did not like it so i chose this is 8k the best?

[Loick]

Hello,

I'd like to install TUFX also, cause I saw some pictures and the result looks beautifull.
Unfortunately, I saw that TUFX is only for 1.9.1 version, BUT  i'd like the last version of AVP, which is for 1.11.

Do AVP needs TUFX to have the best graphics ever ? Or, howx can I manage it ?
I'm afraid that if I'm downgrading to KSP 1.9.1 (for TUFX) and installing AVP (via CKAN), i wouldn't have its last version.

Thanks in advance

[themaster401]

17 hours ago, lifesuckslmao said:

i had paralax i just did not like it so i chose this is 8k the best?

Parallax and AVP are totally different. You can run them both in the same install if you please. Parallax will overhaul planetary surfaces and terrain while AVP spruces up the atmosphere alongside some other effects.

8k textures are currently the top-of-the-line for AVP.

4 hours ago, Loick said:

Hello,

I'd like to install TUFX also, cause I saw some pictures and the result looks beautifull.
Unfortunately, I saw that TUFX is only for 1.9.1 version, BUT  i'd like the last version of AVP, which is for 1.11.

Do AVP needs TUFX to have the best graphics ever ? Or, howx can I manage it ?
I'm afraid that if I'm downgrading to KSP 1.9.1 (for TUFX) and installing AVP (via CKAN), i wouldn't have its last version.

Thanks in advance

TUFX will work fine (well, as functional as it would be on 1.9.1) on the latest version of KSP. I highly recommend using AVP's TUFX profile to achieve the visuals seen in the images, but you are free to use your own profiles as well.

[Spaceman.Spiff]

3 minutes ago, themaster401 said:

TUFX will work fine (well, as functional as it would be on 1.9.1) on the latest version of KSP. I highly recommend using AVP's TUFX profile to achieve the visuals seen in the images, but you are free to use your own profiles as well.

Interesting thing, that...

I got TUFX recently, and the AVP profile causes weird shadows when near a celestial body. Other profiles work fine.

[themaster401]

2 minutes ago, Spaceman.Spiff said:

Interesting thing, that...

I got TUFX recently, and the AVP profile causes weird shadows when near a celestial body. Other profiles work fine.

AVP's profile has ambient occlusion enabled, a TUFX feature which is slightly bugged causing odd interference pattern shadows to appear when the camera is close to an object. I left the feature enabled as the way it adds depth to scenes is pretty incredible...

...anticipating that the developer would eventually fix this issue, but I guess it's been unfixed long enough that others have outright disabled the feature in their profiles.

Interestingly, the same feature in TUFX's predecessor, KS3P, does not exhibit this bug.

 

[Spaceman.Spiff]

Just now, themaster401 said:

Interestingly, the same feature in TUFX's predecessor, KS3P, does not exhibit this bug.

 

Yeah i've noticed the weird shadows and stuff. 

I saw that KS3P was getting updated, but I don't know what happened to that...

Unfortunately the current PP mods are a bit out of date. 

[Loick]

15 hours ago, themaster401 said:

Parallax and AVP are totally different. You can run them both in the same install if you please. Parallax will overhaul planetary surfaces and terrain while AVP spruces up the atmosphere alongside some other effects.

8k textures are currently the top-of-the-line for AVP.

TUFX will work fine (well, as functional as it would be on 1.9.1) on the latest version of KSP. I highly recommend using AVP's TUFX profile to achieve the visuals seen in the images, but you are free to use your own profiles as well.

So, TUFX works fine on the 1.11.2 version, no bugs ?

 

[themaster401]

5 hours ago, Loick said:

So, TUFX works fine on the 1.11.2 version, no bugs ?

 

Aside from the aforementioned ambient occlusion bug that happens regardless of version, yep.

[themaster401]

Update v4.11

Changelog

• Removed KS3P support.
• Disabled TUFX antialiasing.
• Removed custom scatterer settings, use scatterer presets instead.

Changing scatterer presets from 'very high' can yield up to a 25% performance increase in some situations with only a slight visual difference. You can do this by clicking on the blue globe button in the toolbar while in the Space Center.

Edited May 21, 2021 by themaster401

[StickyScissors]

is there anything i can do in the config to get rid of the cloud pop in when going through atmospheres? ive tried screwing around with different combinations of distance fade and view distance but only the view distance actually does anything. Other visual packs either work fine or can be edited to work fine, but this pack specifically i have the horrible pop in and cant get rid of it. Ive seen only a few other mentions of it and no actual Do X Y Z solution. Eve specifically, where im having these issues primarily, i have noticed across multiple graphics mods doesnt have the DistFadeVert value even in the config (and yet those packs still dont have the pop-in), and it only shows up after screwing around with the EVE menu in the game. clearly im missing something here...

Edited May 23, 2021 by StickyScissors

[Nickkerb]

Can anyone help me out with a problem I'm running into with AVP? 

I have EVE, Parallax and Scatterer installed with the 8k AVP textures. When I load up Kerbal on the main menu or use the tracking station initially I get the Kerbin on the left/the first image -- correct lighting and textures. When I launch a mission, I get the one on the right. Any idea what's going on here?

 

Edited May 27, 2021 by Nickkerb