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One of the things I really loved about Kerbal Space Program 2 was its graphics - the water, lighting engine, the engines themselves, or, you know, specifically their exhausts, were just beautiful. But, that’s about where KSP2’s redeeming qualities come to an end. KSP 1 is better in almost every other metric. But, what if there was a way we could enhance Kerbal Space Program 1 to not only match the beauty of KSP 2, but SURPASS IT. Well, in this video, I will be exploring just this. Because, legendary modder BlackRack has released a mod that brings deferred rendering support to Kerbal Space Program, which makes lighting look better AND improves game performance with many light sources!
MOD LIST:
🔴 True Volumetric Clouds
www.patreon.com/posts/true-vo...
🔴 Deferred Rendering
www.patreon.com/posts/deferre...
🔴 Scatterer
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...
🔴 Parallax
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...
🔴 TUFX
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...
🔴 Environmental Visual Enhancements Redux
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...
🔴 Restock
forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/...
My PC specs:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
64 GB RAM
3840 x 2160, 144Hz
This video is intended for audiences 13+ years old.
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i mean the jet pack still works on duna, just that its not that strong you would basically be hopping.
Hey use the hudreplacer mod now you just got KSP 3
Gotta rotate the habs on the gravity ring, otherwise won't they be stock to the windows?
KSP = Skyrim of Space Sim games *in terms of modding
Nah more like the New Vegas of space sim games
Don't say that man. Skyrim has been rereleased so many times that I sort of hate it now. Plus even now it barley works and I have to do things like teleport serana to me all the time.
@@CosmicAggressor no ones forcing you to buy the other releases
@@CosmicAggressoruh huh. How many mods for Skyrim? I think that’s the similarity with KSP
@@CosmicAggressor well, I meant in terms of modding
22:20 if you look at kerbal engineer your situation is Landed, which means that the game thinks you are landed, thus it shows no orbital line (because why would it if you are on the ground), camera shake happens because when you move over terrain in ksp, the camera likes to shake
Good catch. I figured maybe it was one of his mods because I've never seen that glitch before. Now why does the game think he's still landed?
@@reignman30 well when the upper stage of the lander was decoupled, it initially showed it was flying low, but as soon as it hit the solar panels, it switched to landed. probably just your average ksp bug
@@reignman30 I have had that happen several times, I even lost some kerbals due to that... for me it always happened after taking off with a tipped over lander
Could also be the game failing to adjust physics properly and getting a floating point thing
It sometimes happens to me when i ignite an ascent engine at the same time as decoupling, so that might be it
well done lowne, you've been missing out not having these mods, i swear
Tbf I've had these mods installed for a while, just not TUFX or Deferred Rendering (the latter only released in the past week) :)
@@MattLowne ye the deferred drop has been super awesome, and TUFX is must have, especially with a good profile. also i didn't know you had the volumetrics, they're so good
quick tip, i switch to a brighter TUFX profile when it's dark and i need to see
@@MattLowne You should make your own TUFX config and call it something silly lmao
@@MattLowne LOWNE you should do a 500 mod challenge, (Or YoU cAn'T Do THaT?!?!?!)
@@SUPER-META777 if you've ever tried playing ksp with 100+ mods you know having 500 mods will just not work
I'm gonna miss the dynamic music that 2 had, really made the whole exploration aspect that much more exhilarating
Yup, and I think music is over 50% of the problem with JNO. It's soporific! It's a lullaby, in a rocket game! XD
I don't see why there's a reason someone couldn't make a mod for it. The issue is copyrights. Distributing copyrighted music via mods is generally a big no no for any mod distributor. So you'd need someone to compose music, or make a process to import the music from a KSP2 install
Don't worry, wait for my mod
@@szumiks3206 copyright claims and a striked mod incoming
@@WrDsliestIstDf The game is dead, the studio is closed and the mod is free and I don't make any profit from it, some people even reupload soundtracks on CZcams and have no problem with it
My pc will explode with this
That's the neat part, it won't! The performance of these mods are actually quite good and you really don't need a NASA supercomputer to run it (even laptops can run this). Typically anything better than a GTX 1060 is just fine for these mods.
Yes just try it on the lowest settings you'd be surprised. Deffered rendering mod is really good for your FPS actually improves it, just as an example
@@ThijmenDF Umm, what if you do have a GTX 1060? Tbh, I haven't seen any problems at everything maxed graphics in vanilla except when you have like big rockets going fast in the atmosphere. But, the 1060 is 5 years younger than the game, so yeah.
@@ThijmenDF Can run on good old Soviet potato. Like Tetris.
Is rtx 3060(laptop) enough?
now that matt is doing KSP mods the question is will he ever get over his fear of RSS 😂
You need a really beefy computer for the whole RSS reborn XD
@@listener-tt1gwi have a ryzen 5 3600 and gtx 1050ti
Rss works well on m graphics
@@nikolaideianov5092 I mean, the full **RSS Reborn**.that means parallax and volumetric clouds
@@listener-tt1gwdoesn’t Matt have a 4090?
@@robyn051 Maybe he can support it!
Stratzenblitz75 would be proud of your accidental landed state while ascending to Duna's orbit
16:51 very human re-entry 👍
Average KSP reentry
And he’s just talking over it like nothing happened lmao
Technically it's just entry, not re-entry.
I really hope KSP 2 gets sold to another company so it can continue development
Yeah but I fear it'll become another Duke Nukem Forever affair.
Based on what shadowzone said which is about the only source of info we have it seems take two was asking for ALOT more than KSP 2 was really worth given it's current state. I doubt they are going to cave and sell it for a more reasonable price.
@@harrymack3565 Standard to be fair, attempting to recoup their losses. It's kinda counterproductive to slap a massive, inflated price on it though isn't it? 😅
I'm hoping to win the lottery with the sole goal of buying the game and hiring all the people who actually care about it to remake it. Wish me luck!
Some company should buy the IP but start completely over.
Stratzenblitz did a video on something similar to this glitch you encountered. When you took off from Duna, something kept the ascent vehicle from switching from the state “LANDED” to “FLYING”, as you can see in the Kerbal Engineer display. That’s also what causes the mysterious shaking. Stratzenblitz abused this glitch to allow for flight under the surface of Duna and Jool.
This glitch is also one of the ways of getting jool surface samples
as an "in lore" reason for introducing mods: you/your viewer community could come up with your own in-game tech advancement tree - following some logical pattern, (but not necessarily constrained 100% by such - where it would make more sense in the installation process to diverge from logic), and have story beats of your own invention in each episode which allow you to "unlock" the next mod or mods in your planned list. That way you can both explore mods, and have those mods make more tangible sense to those learning them, as they'll be tied to the story, and we humans tend to remember things better when we tie them to stories. :)
on the back of my thoughts there, I tried a prompt into gpt3.5 & 4o and it was pretty damn good & inspirational, I won't post the replies I got here, as it'd be a wall of words and would give away spoilers if you picked similar, and you'd likely want your own input/weighting bias to certain mods in the prompt, but my prompt was:
_"describe 5 mods for Kerbal Space Program, together with some fictional "in-game" reason for these mods to be added to an episodic story, whereby the mods would be in effect "unlocked" by some story beat featuring the Kerbals themselves... e.g. USI Habitation Rings unlocked by first performing a separate EVA engineering mission (since an engineer would be needed on EVA to deploy the rings in a following missing and therefore would need prior training)"_
24:00 reminds me of the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. "Did he say you will doing this manually sir? No automation?"
Now there needs to be a mod that eliminates most of the loading time.
Stop complaining. I play console edition more than pc and it takes 50x longer on console
@@CreativeSanbox-KH It's not a complaint, it's a fact. KSP is not optimised for SSD. Instead of pushing an update for the 2K launcher, they should've worked on optimising load times.
Mod it in yourself. KSP1 is a frozen game, and thank god that it is- we can actually mod without fear of an update breaking things!
KSP Community Fixes cut my loading time to *1/5* of stock. It now loads to main menu in less time than stock took to begin showing the progress bar! 😃However, it might not do so much for you; someone told me it only made his install load 20% faster. I guess it depends how much RAM you have; I only have 8GB.
That’s called a ssd
Now we only need a good colony mod and one for interstellar travels
There are definitely colony and interstellar mods already in existence. Whether they would be considered 'good' I don't know.
So glad KSP1 is back to being the focus of modders.
It is simply my favorite by far. Warts and all.
Those visual mods are simply stunning, so buetiful. Can't wait for matt to play rss with this.
Hey Matt! The reason why your orbital line did not show on your Duna ascent is because your craft was in a "landed" state, which means that the game thinks you are on the surface of Duna, so it doesn't have to render the orbital lines. Hope this helped!
Hey Matt, one thing I discovered after a mishap during flight is that the Apollo style command pod can return using only one radial parachute (except if you carry too much mass so you gotta jettison the heat shield), meaning that there's no clutter between parashutes and they aren't awkwardly sticking from the sides.
I've been using almost this exact same visual mod list for a while and its just *chefs kiss* every time I open the game and look at those clouds on the menu
Steam says i have 1400 hours in ksp and i still havent landed a crewed mission on duna. What the heck have i been doing?
i played for years without doing this either lol, don't worry
@@ixxxxxxxI’ve been playing for a year and all I’ve done is landed a modded colony on mun and did a space battle over Minmus lol and that made up 113 hours of gameplay
I have 200+ hours and haven't even landed on the mun
in all fairness, there isnt actually much of a reason to go anywhere. theres some stuff you can find using stock scanning, but theyre quite difficult to locate even when you know what youre doing. What id recommend is giving Kerbalism a shot. Its...a hellova learning curve, but it makes the game feel completely new. Actually having to revisit locations for science, needing to properly take care of crew, creating an actual, real communications network. It's really awesome for giving a purpose to your games
@@hashtagrex I've got life support and planetary base mods for mun and minmus bases but kerbalism was a bit too much. Colony management was what I was most hyped for about ksp 2 but I was not willing to pay 78aud for promises.
Now that we're pretty much sure KSP2 was murdered in it's sleep, Matt...will you please do a "how to turn KSP 1 into KSP2 using mods in 2024" video? I really wanna play KSP 1 like KSP 2 was promised to us :(
Parallax 2.0.X, BlackRack's Deferred Lighting and Volumetric Clouds, Planetshine, Distant Objects Enhancements, Environmental Visual Enhancements Redux and Scatterer. 👍🏻
What GSF404 said, and Spectra. There is also Astronomers Visual Pack but I don't know if that is compatible with Parallax and BlackRacks Volumetric Clouds.
@@chrisust8079 You don't need them. With Volumetric Clouds, Deferred Lighting and such it looks better than Astronomers. But the absolute God tier is under development, forum user G'th is working on a stock follow-up to his mod 'Ad Astra' which was for JNSQ.
@@GSF404pretty sure they mean the game, not just what it looks like (colonies, extra star system, multiplayer, etc)
@@Guffy1990 Yeah that'll be quite a long list. 😅
Afternoon Matt. Hope you're well and your weather is treating you better down South than it is here just outside of Durham, where it's raining stair-rods at the moment!
Anyway, I digress. I've just started a sweet, heavily modded 3.5x rescale career in KSP and I've got a mod for you to try that I think you'll love. MKS, or Modular Kolonisation System developed by Roverdude. Basically it's as close to 'Colonies' as possible in KSP1.
Ty for putting the modlist in the description, i'm deffinetely going to play with this as the default!
Just make sure you install them correctly, or else the game might break (KSP is held together with hopes, dreams, sticks, and duck tape), or just install CKAN, that does everything for you.
Brilliant way to start a Saturday
at least my laptop can survive this...
15:38 this part is funny, i love getting radiation overdose on my favorite red planet in ksp
Yeah, my laptop can’t. 5fps gaming for sure.
Really appreciate your approach to amount of mods you showcased here. I haven’t started doing mods but environments is the only one I really want to do. Thanks for the video!
Really happy you're starting to delve into the world of KSP mods :D
Please note that these short radius centrifuges are not a case of only 5% of people can use them at all, more a case of only 5% of people can use them without gravity training. Which basicly consists of laying on a spinning disk and moving your kneck back and forth a couple times a day for 2-3 weeks. So a very achievable training regiment.
Could just have the sleeping quarters in the gravity rings. Also slowing them down on the trip to Mars, and speeding them up on the trip back would help the astronauts get used to Mars gravity, and then back to Earth gravity.
KSP2 Was so cursed that its Kraken bled into KSP.
please use the ZTheme mod to get rid of the god awful outdated UI.
LOVE that UI, it's fantastic. Good shout!
bump
the original UI is so nostalgic though
For the solar panels exploding, I think what you could’ve done is retract them and before staging, click on extend solar panels and stage just before they are fully extended.
build a multi episode base. A huge base. Just cheat it into Duna orbit, or even onto the surface. Put ike 50 kerbals on in. Its not about the build or the journey, it about the base. Make every unit starship esk
This has been something I was wondering about, so thanks for putting that together for us
Turns out, we had the KSP2 we wanted all along!
I swear. One day when I have more time. I am going to go through all of MattLowne’s videos and count how many times he says “ApolloStyle”. Let’s place some bets.
In addition to just doing videos that showcase various mods individually, it'd be fun to see you do missions with all the mods you've showcased so far, like just coming up with a fun roleplay reason to do some particular mission, like a plane that flies around Eve, or a giant mobile base on Eeloo, or whatever strikes your fancy really. Even having, like, different series of videos with ongoing stories where you can show off some more complex multi-part missions and stuff. And then as those videos go on, you can mention which mods you're using and be all like "and if you want to learn more about that, I have a video all about this mod here!" and do like a little cross-promotion thing. I dunno, it just seems like a good opportunity to expand on stuff that you've already covered in years past, but with new options and capabilities enabled by modded parts.
finally matt i have the ksp1 into ksp2 video thank you
Again, so happy to see KSP 1 content again 😊
MATT! You should def get into modded ksp1 vids. Do inter-galaxies, warp drive stuff, there's so much to do
you could also try the ASET mod which adds proper IVA instruments, screens and controls, along with the FreeIVA mod, which allows you to move around in IVA parts
I, for one, like your approach to mods
seeing ksp 1 again feels super refreshing
absolutely SEAMLESS sponsorship transition, loved it
I saw the thumbnail. I wasn't sure if it was going to showcase insane visual mods or insane visual mods, but the fact that it's not April 1st indicated it would more likely be one than the other. XD
Keeping it fresh forever is a very difficult problem.
Time! It flies! It leaves us feeling old before we're ready! 😂The other week, I realised it's been nearly 5 years since I started playing KSP. Not only does it feel like no time at all, I feel like I'm getting behind because I've never been to Eeloo even though I can easily build a ship to do it. It's because I don't like piloting, so I'll go when I get mechjeb. It's pretty-much next on my list of mods to install.
You landed in a good spot: Scenic dust storms in the distance, but not where you are.
"Situation: Landed" -- Perhaps this is a new way to exploit the landed state to make "floating" Jool bases. Idea! "Floating" Eve base. :)
Thank you Matt!
Blackrack, you absolute legend! If I had the hardware to run this stuff, I would gladly shell out some cash for every single mod he produces!
I enjoyed this video and the throwback reference to Scott Manley’s Interstellar Quest.
That duna landing had me gripping my desk a bit
I think you can get RCS jetpacks to sort of work if you start pressing shift at the same time you jump, you have to keep pressing shift to stay in the air
Absolutly gorgeous. It's been long since I last played KSP, and those mods make it look like an actual KSP2 to my eyes.
im am so surprised that matt have been making content for over 9 years and he still pumping content about ksp he is the true og
"It's very cheap it's only $5 per month". This is how you know Matt is a doctor for a living. "It's one banana Michael, how much could it cost, $10?"
5 per month if you want updates. But the mods are already kinda of done.
Just 5 if you want the clouds and deferred lighting in the current state.
Woooah it touched down! So developers picked up KSP2 again?
No one on YT sounds more authentically drunk than Matt does when set to playback speed 0.5x 😂
In like 40 years maybe computers will be so powerful we can just mod literally anything into KSP
Keep going with the collony series
I like the glass floor and lack of windows on the gravity ring
Matt Lowne modded series? hell yeah you can do so much more content, like trying to shoot down a sattelite with a jet. colonies, the possibilities are limitless now
We got to see the end!
The ghost of KSP2 is haunting KSP 1
Matt you should do a mission where you capture an asteroid, bring it to Kerbin orbit and then build a space station on or around it
It would be cool to see you do a modded science mode playthrough, like one where you colonize the kerbal system
Thank you this is awesome 👏
Thanks for yet another fantastic video. Maybe you should do a side video helping new new people install mods your suggesting. Not everyone is super keen on how do it step by step.
13:09 Happy to see this again in insane visuals
Yes. Would love to see your e-sports mission done as a couple of "proper" vids
Surely Matt will do a Kcalbeloh series some time soon.
FINALLY HE SHOWS THE SPLASH DOWN
I have an idea for a potential stock ksp vid that’s a twist on the typical SSTO Minmus mission. Instead of launching a ssto and doing a direct ascent mission, the ssto would carry a transfer and lander payload that would be deployed from LKO. The craft would then rendezvous with the ssto after the minmus/min landing and dock back into the cargo bay to then be landed back at the KSC.
Man I loved watching interstellar quest, and his later realism series (that one used RSS, not Interstellar Quest)
16:36 often when the delta V wont show on a vehicle that had/has many stages, add a few empty staging events below and above your actual stages and miraculously it will calculate the dV correctly.
My PC just exploded
I'm a fan of the slowly rolling out of the mods btw would be appreciated.
i had the same glitch in ksp 2 i did an apollo stayle mun mission. for me the solution was to first stage the 2 stage from the lander stage and then start the engines and take of the mun.(sry if the grammar is wrong im german)
Actually, the grammar was very good. I understood it the first time that I read it. (Native English speaker here.)
@@jamesf9829 thx
Any weird tricks for installing all of these mods and getting them to play nice together?
The last time I mucked around with KSP graphics mods I don't remember bloom being a thing, and the addition of it here makes a big difference on how good the game looks imo. I would assume it's TUFX.
I sometimes get that landed state when leaving a lower stage, I think it’s the Landing gear that breaks the orbital lines.
that landed bug has happened to me a few times, only happens on duna for some reason
I'm stuck in limbo atm as I'm on the verge of homelessness and desperately trying to find somewhere to move to before I get dragged out, but shit I cant wait to get settled and back to some KSP.
I am using CKAN to install mods and the game is gorgeous now.
Also the NEAR FUTURE mods make some really fun adds like methane and H2 fuels, plus a ton of new tanks and engines.
Seriously it is nice to go back to a stable game where i don't need to worry if some bug will mess my mission.
I'm back deep in the KSP mines
When I was younger, a series that I watched a lot of was Spiritwolf, which was a Stock-based interplanetary war series, that made me want to play proper KSP _so_ bad, I believe at that point, I was still on the demo version of the game, or hadn't installed the latest version or something, or was just too young to build anything like I wanted XD But I feel like Younger Lowne on youtube would've liked it :P
I really should get back into KSP, it's been a while since I've played, maybe I will when I've got my new computer!
are there any mods that make sense of having space bases? like something that gives science to be in orbit for a year, or on a planet. and maybe a mod that doesn't blow up bases after a time jump, and also one to avoid the octopus effect. thanks you're the best
check out kerbalism
As a person who doesn’t want to pay for ksp 2 but has ksp but doesn’t know how to mod I approve
the crew forgetting the science data when leaving Duna,
probably is like peak Kerbalkind though.
It will be great to try maximise the use of strange components, like kal-1000 to build auto-landing devices (opening chutes or similar), or using some kind of crane to assembly bases (SpaceX like…), to renew missions!
22:34 absolutely, I was using cheats to get a lander to Duna orbit so I could test its deltaV, and every time I tried taking off I would be shaking with no orbital line, it took like uh a few days for it to return to normal and I kinda just shrugged it off until now
We want more of the modded minmus base series!
KSP 1 looks beautiful with these mods
Did you know if you do a science experiment in space the Kerbals will do something cool.
I’ve never had the missing orbital line glitch in KSP
hell yeah cant way for you to try out the Near Future family of mods
This is the sort of modded playthrough I can tolerate
KSP1 FOR LIFE.
Matt A easier way to get a duna transfer window is just to draw a line from kerbin directly up, the line show pass right infront of duna. Its much easier then trying to figure out if its a 45 degree angle
After hearing about the KSP2 drama, I found your channel. It's amazing but I am having a tough time understanding a lot of the basics... Perhaps you could do a total beginner tutorial.
"Thrust to weight ratio", "delta-v" and so on.
Whilst the in-game tutorials are good, I also want to listen to you explain it :)
I've gotten the orbital line glitch in ksp 1 when i was optimizing my moon lander by violently removing some unneeded landing bits
Now all we need is a KSP2 UI mod for the first game and I can go back to KSP1
I'd reccommend using The janitor's closet to hide modded parts instead of you having to uninstall and reinstall them every time you want to switch
We need to restart the KSP excitement. I remember the hype train leaving the station, when several of the major KSP CZcamsrs did the space station collaboration video series
- would be very cool to see something similar using an actual “celebrity” KSP server with simultaneous play -, maybe that was an initiative you could explore?