0. Graphics Settings.md

Recommended Graphics Settings

These settings will get you the best visuals for the cheapest cost. Turning the settings higher does not significantly improve the visual quality but it WILL significantly increase the performance cost. If you have a weaker GPU you may want to set things lower.

• Terrain scatter: off (assuming you have parallax)
• Reflection refresh: If you have Deferred or Textures Unlimited, set to Low. Otherwise Off.
• Reflection resolution: 256
• Antialiasing: off (use scatterer or TUFX antialiasing; stock AA is incompatible with HDR + Bloom anyway)
• Pixel light count: 8

In my experience, turning off temporal antialiasing and SMAA in scatterer and using temporal antialiasing in TUFX gives the best results. If you're seeing blurring or smearing when the camera or objects are in motion, it's almost certainly because of some combination of these options. Try turning all of them off and then re-enable one at a time.

1. KSP Mod Recommendations.md

These lists do not include dependencies. If you select these mods from CKAN then it will get all the dependencies for you. For anything that you have to manually install, read their install instructions to find dependencies.

Below you can find a .ckan file that will install most of this quite painlessly (including AVP, so if you are using volumetric clouds you will need to remove AVP, scatterer, EVE, etc.).

Performance

• KSP Community Fixes

Graphics

Paid (not on CKAN)

Note: paid mods should be installed last so that CKAN doesn't get confused. Don't install scatterer or eve from CKAN if you're using volumetric clouds - you must use the versions that come from volumetric clouds.

• Blackrack’s volumetric clouds - patreon

Free alternatives to the above (available on CKAN):

• Astronomer’s Visual Pack

Install from CKAN

• Parallax Continued
• Deferred
• TUFX
• Shaddy
• Firefly
• Textures Unlimited (required for Shaddy to apply to stock parts)
• Stock Waterfall Effects (or Waterfall Restock or Restock Waterfall Expansion (slightly buggy) if you're installing Restock)
• Skybox of your choice (one of Pood's is always a good start)

Optional Graphics Mods

• Restock - Alters the models and textures for a lot of the stock parts
• TURD (not on CKAN and doesn't support restock, I think? People are working on this)
• Ztheme (make sure HUDReplacer is 1.3.1 or later for better performance)
• TextureReplacer (adds Kerbal hair)
• Avalanche (waterfall plumes for SRBs, slightly buggy)

Audio

• Rocket Sound Enhancement

Optional Audio Mods

• Chatterer - adds random kerbal radio chatter
• Soundtrack Editor Forked (not on ckan) - allows for altering the in-game music
• Ship Effects Continued - rattles and creaks when in IVA

Quality of Life

• RCSBuildAid
• Tracking Station Evolved
• Navball Docking Alignment Indicator CE-2
• StationKeeping

KSP-Pretty.ckan

{
    "spec_version": "v1.6",
    "identifier": "KSP-Pretty",
    "name": "KSP-Pretty",
    "abstract": "Baseline graphics and audio improvements for KSP",
    "author": "JonnyOThan",
    "version": "1.1.0",
    "ksp_version_min": "1.12",
    "ksp_version_max": "1.12",
    "license": "unknown",
    "depends": [
        {
            "name": "Kopernicus",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "Shabby",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "Waterfall",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "AstronomersVisualPack",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "RocketSoundEnhancement",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "AvalanchePlumes",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "Deferred",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "Firefly",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "KSPCommunityFixes",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "ParallaxContinued",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "RocketSoundEnhancement-Config-Default",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "Scatterer-sunflare",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "Shaddy",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "StockWaterfallEffects",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "TexturesUnlimited",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "TUFX",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        },
        {
            "name": "Scatterer-config",
            "suppress_recommendations": true
        }
    ],
    "release_date": "2025-02-08T13:07:28.4349964Z",
    "kind": "metapackage"
}