KSPVk-0.8.0-beta

The following graphical features was added:

• Volumetric clouds (appears on Kerbin, Laythe, Eve and Duna)
• Better quality terrain rendering (KSVPk is bundled with a bunch of generic textures, bakes them and applies them more efficiently to terrain)
• Scatters (grass with a side of delicious succulent crunchy nutricious lil pebbles)

To further boost performance, KSPVk now allows partial updates to different effects (shadows, reflections, lighting) per frame and caching them. This saves a lot of compute since your computer is doing less work. If you're running KSP on a laptop or an old graphics card (e.g. gtx 10 series card), set update rate to "performance" to reduce stress on your GPU.

Stock KSP has really blurry terrain when at a higher altitude. KSPVk bakes two resolutions of terrain maps in the background while in flight, and displays those for a sharper image. This will use ~24MB of disk per planet visited.

To use, download KSPVk-0.8.0-beta.zip. Extract it, and place KSPVk into your Gamedata folder. You can optionally install the terrain textures (Download KSPVk-0.8.0-beta-terrain.zip, extract, and copy the terrain folder in PluginData into KSPVk\PluginData).

To try the presets, download KSPVk-presets.zip and extract the contents into KSPVk\PluginData\presets.
Fast preset is for weaker devices running KSP at maximum speed.
Beau preset is for low end devices running KSPVk with enhanced graphics.

KSPVk version 1

To use it, extract the .zip and paste KSPVk into the GameData folder.
Use "O" to toggle Vulkan rendering. Key can be rebinded.