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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.