Sun mod for better light/flares?

[Jimbodiah]

Playing RSSVE/Scatterer and kind of disappointed by the sun, it's just a white dot in the sky and you wouldn't know it was the sun if it wasn't bigger than the other stars.

Is there any mod currently for 1.8.1 that adds better sun light and/or flares? I use to have some mods in the 1.3.1 days, but it seems there is not a lot around anymore.

[Shadowmage]

5 hours ago, Jimbodiah said:

Playing RSSVE/Scatterer and kind of disappointed by the sun, it's just a white dot in the sky and you wouldn't know it was the sun if it wasn't bigger than the other stars.

Is there any mod currently for 1.8.1 that adds better sun light and/or flares? I use to have some mods in the 1.3.1 days, but it seems there is not a lot around anymore.

I never got into it, but I'm pretty sure that Scatterer will let you replace the sunflare entirely (with something custom?)?

https://github.com/LGhassen/Scatterer/tree/master/scatterer/Effects/SunFlare

At least that is what the source code makes me believe (though I haven't dug into it much)...

[Jimbodiah]

I think that isn't working at the moment, at least I just get a white dot with no real lightsource using just Scatterer. Found the old Maar mod, but that only works 50% of the times I start KSP up.

Edited February 25, 2020 by Jimbodiah

[Jimbodiah]

Might be EVE/RSSVE getting in the way. In map view it seems to work more often than in regular view using Sunflares of Maar.

Looks cool when is does work though.

Edited February 25, 2020 by Jimbodiah

[Geonovast]

Moved to Add-On Discussions

[Jimbodiah]

AH thanks!!


And the question is still relevant: Anyone know a mod that still works in 1.8.1 ?

[JadeOfMaar]

@Jimbodiah Speak of the devil. I'm betting RSSVE has obsolete, broken sunflare configs. scatterer has had a few breaking updates recently, after all, one of which was the change of config syntax at about KSP 1.6.

[VoidSquid]

I'm playing stock, no idea if this works with RSS, but Scatterer together with good old GSF works perfectly for me.

[Jimbodiah]

GSF?

@JadeOfMaar   So it's related to these other mods? Maybe I can disable the sun flares in those to see if they are interfering.

[VoidSquid]

11 hours ago, Jimbodiah said:

GSF?

This:

Still works perfect with the latest Scatterer, you might want to check the screenshots in that thread.

[Hohmannson]

Scatterer flares are a problem, something is causing them to vanish randomly. Seen that on multiple planet packs since  KSP 1.7.3. Try that thing, it can run alongside scatterer and the flare will behave properly.

 

On 2/25/2020 at 4:47 PM, Jimbodiah said:

Might be EVE/RSSVE getting in the way. In map view it seems to work more often than in regular view using Sunflares of Maar.

Looks cool when is does work though.

 

[Capt. Hunt]

I should point out that scatterer hasn't been updated for 1.9.x yet.

 

Edit: I just noticed that the OP was asking specifically for 1.8.1, not 1.9.

Edited February 29, 2020 by Capt. Hunt