Best Graphic Mods of Kerbal Space Program

The best 15 visual mods of Kerbal Space Program ranked in a tierlist.
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[@CupcakesLanders]

A few here I hadn't heard of. Thankyou! 😎

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Glad I could help. Also, ur channel is one of those that inspired me to make youtube videos on KSP to begin with, so thanks!

[@CupcakesLanders]

@@leonardobonanno5115 My pleasure! 😁

[@Ineedanaccountnow0]

Very helpful video. Strange background skit though XD

[@leonardobonanno5115]

🤣

[@jimalbi]

Blackrack's Volumetruc Clouds is awesome but it conflicts with auroraes and also, there's so muvh settungs you can tweek that I'm lost in it. Love it very much tough.

[@leonardobonanno5115]

I somehow managed to edit the EVE Redux file so that now I have both Spectra for the auroras and Volumetric Clouds at the same time. Also Blackrack said he is working on adding the auroras to his mod so you can wait and see.

[@jimalbi]

@@leonardobonanno5115 Oh god, that'll be fantastic. Can't wait

[@danielpegas133]

Thanks man! Really helpful and nicely put together video! Keep it up!

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Thanks bro, your profile pic is 🔥

[@user-my6ow1xj1x]

@@leonardobonanno5115 Everything is fine in the video. You can ask to place the modifications in one archive and upload them to Google Drive or another cloud. This will make life easier for many. Please 😢

[@droowayne]

Great video man, you just convinced me to finally learn how to use camera tools lol

[@leonardobonanno5115]

It's such an underrated mod, deserves some appreciation lol

[@danitheman7235]

Such a good video i didnt realise you were a small creator thought u were at like 1 mil subs and you deserve at least the 1 mil subs

[@leonardobonanno5115]

I'm glad you enjoyed the content bro!

[@fractalelf7760]

Great video on this - been playing on and off for years, it hard to keep up with what all is going on with mods now.

[@Carlos-kh5qu]

great video! and that's why ksp 1 still better than ksp 2 lol.

[@leonardobonanno5115]

So far yes, I agree with you.

[@quailbingle]

I say give ksp 2 a few years and it'll be on ksp 1's level

[@dancingzombie6415]

Not for long…. Well kinda wait like a year or 2

[@squaremantis]

@@dancingzombie6415We’ll see if ksp2 becomes better than ksp 1, so far its still a lot worse than ksp 1 after almost a year of early access

[@dancingzombie6415]

@@squaremantis if they do everything in the roadmap (which they will cuz it’s a roadmap) then I think it will be way more fun, it will just take a while that’s all

[@Luz0n]

It's very rare for me to comment on videos, but yours was simply a creative, cool and intuitive video, you were able to hold me in the entire video, I watched it until the end and I really liked it, congratulations on the excellent work, if I could give more a like I would give

[@leonardobonanno5115]

It's great to hear your enjoyed it, I have planned more KSP content in the future 🤙

[@keksentdecker]

really cool overview

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Glad you enjoyed, more vids on the topic coming out soon!

[@gamagos_1459]

Very well made and helpful Video I installed all the mods with ckan as i find it one of the best and easiest ways to install mods

[@iBele.]

Amazing video man! Just yesterday I fixed a pretty good computer (24GB RAM, CPU 3,4GHZz) that my grandpa gave to me. Now I want to install some visual mods like parallax, EVE and other ones. If you ever whatched a Matt Lowne video you'll surely find that the cockpit windows are transparent, how can he do that? I noticed that also you have transparent cockpit windows at min 1:38

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Hi, it's cool to hear you got your beefy computer to work again! To make the spacecraft windows transparent it is fairly simple and requires no mods. You have to click that small yellow dot icon located next to the icons of your Kerbal astronauts during the game at the bottom right of the screen. Hope it helps 🤙

[@iBele.]

Yeah, but this makes the entire cockpit transparent, I actually meant only the windows

[@KergarinAerospace]

Thats a great roundup. But do you also have a suggestion which Graphics mods work best together with the outer planets mod? I would like to have the stock and outer planets in the same quality to not be disappointed when i reach the outer planets.

[@leonardobonanno5115]

About a year ago I did try the outer planets mod and I remember being disappointed at the lack of detailed features on the planets compared to the stock ones. From my understanding, this is mainly due to the incompatibilty of OPM (being a very old mod) with Spectra, Scatterer and True Volumetric Clouds (recent mods). It's possible that OPM hasn't been updated to support recent mods. I will check if the issue has been fixed now, since OPM is indeed a great mod, otherwise I'd recommend checking out similar ones that are more recent and compatible with recent visual mods. Btw your channel is goated, keep it up 🔥

[@KergarinAerospace]

@@leonardobonanno5115 Tanks! That would do me a big favor. There is a mod called parallax for OPM but that does just use textures from stock planets and apply them to the outer planets, also i don't think that it adds any surface features, but i didn't have the time to check it all. OPM basically brings configa for scatterer and eve and theres also poods OPM Visual Overhaul which is some kind of replacement or additon to eve. Astronomers visual pack also states that it supports OPM. Thats all i know so far. Yes I have a history with KSP and want to play again. Now that theres a final version and no one will break our mods, Im looking to build my personal ultimate modded KSP.

[@lilkris3008]

@@KergarinAerospaceI run AVP with OPM and it looks good parallax adds nothing though scatter planet shine and avp all work on them though

[@hstochla]

@@KergarinAerospaceI didn’t know you were still using this account! Your videos are fantastic

[@adhip0574]

Hey this is surprisly nice for a small creator, feels like we having a chat about this personally!

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Hey thank you, great to hear you appreciate the content. This community is a rare gem :)

[@adhip0574]

@@leonardobonanno5115 🫡

[@Mephil]

My left ear loved this

[@leonardobonanno5115]

For my next video, I'll remember not to exclude your right ear aswell 🤣

[@johnray854]

Turd... INTENSE VSAUCE MUSIC PLAYS

[@SPACEMAN98]

Question can you run the volumetric clouds on ur laptop? And what are ur laptop specs?

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Yes, all the footage shown of volumetric clouds has been recorded while playing the game on my laptop. I still get playable frames per second between 20 and 60 depending on the craft size. Its an ASUS laptop from 2019 with: - GTX1650 - i5-9300H -16 GB RAM - 500 GB SSD Hope it helps

[@SPACEMAN98]

@@leonardobonanno5115 thanks I should be fine then

[@IT120s]

This video is perfect ,But if you can play war thander?

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Yes, I will publish a War Thunder kill compilation :)

[@IT120s]

@@leonardobonanno5115 :)

[@leonardobonanno5115]

​@@IT120sCheck out my latest video made with War Thunder 😊

[@danzstuff]

there are also 64k clouds for AVP im pretty sure, nice tier list tho

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Thank you buddy!

[@yournotgully]

distant object enhancement deserves S tier

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Why is that?

[@lilkris3008]

Facts makes approaching planets interesting instead of nothing and then planet

[@moshi305]

real time waiting for matt lowne

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Hahaha still waiting for his response lol

[@moshi305]

make a mun mission with a sls rocket

[@Parascuba]

RIP KSP2 anyway, i has added all mods as you suggest list. Let's see what happen with my game :)

[@rishabh5610]

Do you know what configuration of Waterfall to use, for stock, restock and restock + parts as of now?

[@leonardobonanno5115]

For stock parts I use the stock configs. If you are using the restock mod then you can also find the Waterfall re-stock configs on the CKAN mod manager program. It's really worth it. For restock plus I am not sure because I haven't used that version before.

[@rishabh5610]

@@leonardobonanno5115 thanks for reply, yeah I have been messing around trying to get a modded ksp set up and i was not sure what configs to use as ckan warns those configs as not compatible but i installed it anyway and it works. Thought maybe there are other more updated configs.

[@ruskiwaffle1991]

I'd try some of these mods if it weren't for my KSP sending my computer on life support every time I start the game.

[@6Twisted]

You forgot skybox mods. I personal favorite is Pood's Calm Nebula.

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Oh yeah I think I have heared of it. Quite a popular choice!

[@blupbob9598]

Why if turd are don't work (I don't see anything bottom about recolor, maybe the restock mod is interfering with it) and can you give tufx's settings. thanks in advance for your answer

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Ok so if you have the restock mod then its a different situation than the example I showed in the video. I do not know if restock is compatible with TURD and Lazy Painter (both are mods to colour the parts). For the TUFX settings I am not sure what you are asking exactly based on your question. (It's okay bro, English is also not my first language)

[@blupbob9598]

@@leonardobonanno5115 I mean profiles.

[@UnusualDeathCause]

Does Distant object enchancment fix texture pop-in? Cause honeslty its my only problem with KSP graphics.

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Sorry I'm not familiar with that term. Can you explain how it relates to KSP?

[@brycedarnell7395]

If only I had something better than 8GB of RAM, with only 5GB usable and some laptop, then I could run this

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Yeah RAM is the biggest limiting factor for how many mods your PC can run before transforming into a nuclear toaster

[@brycedarnell7395]

@@leonardobonanno5115 But hey, you can make some pretty good toast. *_(Side effects may include radiation poisoning)_*

[@elso19473]

Does anyone know what the best mods are to use as an EVE configuration????

[@leonardobonanno5115]

I would recommend you the True Volumetric Clouds mod by BlackRack as it is intended to be a configuration of EVE, which he also made. Just keep in mind that it costs 4$ but personally I find it worth it.

[@AngelusFromHell]

Can I use Scatterer, True volumetric clouds and Eve together without messing up the game?

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Yes, those three not only are compatible mods but True Volumetric Clouds NEEDS Eve and Scatterer to run in the first place.

[@AngelusFromHell]

@@leonardobonanno5115 thanks!

[@Revenant326]

how can i get the true volumetric clouds mod ?

[@leonardobonanno5115]

You have to subscribe to BlackRack's Patreon for 4$ and you will get the mod.

[@fernandogha]

Vsauce vibes video

[@Azurp]

which mod ea dark sky in space Ksp please tell me)

[@leonardobonanno5115]

The dark sky is given by installing Distant Object Enhancement. Also depends on which skybox you install.

[@Azurp]

@@leonardobonanno5115 )

[@new_simsons]

Is volumetric clouds now free?

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Nope 🥲

[@axelarnaud7547]

6:00 FBI Open the door

[@XHU524-OFSET5]

is TURD on CKAN? I cant find it, if no where do I download

[@leonardobonanno5115]

TURD can be found on google in the KSP forum. Just type "Textures Unlimited Recolour Depot" in your search bar :)

[@XHU524-OFSET5]

@@leonardobonanno5115 thanks, I managed the figure it out

[@blupbob9598]

What version ksp do you have?

[@leonardobonanno5115]

The latest, 1.12.5

[@blupbob9598]

@@leonardobonanno5115 thank you

[@dallaszzz]

wtf you did planet shine DIRTYYYYY it looks its best when your looking at the dark side of your craft in orbit especially with shiny metallic parts where you can see the shine in all of its glory

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Hahaha ok fine you win

[@geoe1856]

How'd you make the game so shiny?

[@leonardobonanno5115]

You mean the vehicles or the planets? For the vehicle parts I use Textures Unlimited Recolour Depot mod and Lazy Painter.

[@geoe1856]

@@leonardobonanno5115 Yea, the vehicles, Thanks.

[@jonathanzambrano6951]

who teaches me how to install the TURD mod, please.

[@leonardobonanno5115]

If you go to this link you can find the main KSP Forum page with the explanation on how you can instal TURD because it has the dependancy of module manager (meaning you need to install it aswell in order to function) forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/174188-112x-textures-unlimited-recolour-depot/

[@perialis2970]

can we know your laptop spec's mine is rtx 3050 mobile, 11th gen i5, think it'l run?

[@leonardobonanno5115]

With those specs, absolutely yes! My laptop has a GTX 1650 mobile and an overclocked and undervolted i5 9th gen. I don't get insane frame rates but the game is enjoyable at 20-50 fps when fully modded.

[@perialis2970]

@@leonardobonanno5115 Do you have 16 gb of ram? because i only have 8, and game runs at 40-65 fps

[@perialis2970]

also i consider you to buy an external gpu setup, it will probably be expensive, but a good idea if you really want to hold on longer with ur laptop hahaha or sell and use the money as like a discount on a new pc? or.. the pro gamer move: make good content and make a patreon account lol honestly i wont mind if you did try to show me your patreon in ur vids, i wouldnt support because i dont have a credit card (my bro bought ksp for me on steam)

[@leonardobonanno5115]

@@perialis2970 My laptop had 8 GB RAM and I bought an extra 8GB so I play with 16 total. The difference is that you get more frames per second and the games you play stop having micro stutters. Overall a cheap and substantial upgrade I'd recommend doing, if possible.

[@leonardobonanno5115]

@@perialis2970 Yes, your suggestion is very accurate to what I did recently. My laptop's memory card broke and I lost everything, so I bought a custom built desktop. It has a Ryzen RX6700-XT GPU and a Ryzen 5 5600X GPU so it will run KSP at much higher framerates and at 1440p. I plan to create higher quality KSP content in the future with this new powerful setup!

[@KiumarBy00]

How Did You Get Your 8-Year-Old Laptop to Run Parallax and My 2019 Macbook Pro Not Even That Can 😩

[@leonardobonanno5115]

It's an ASUS laptop from 2019 so it's 4 years old, not 8. Parallax 2.0 is much more optimised than its previous versions and it runs fine on a GTX1650 mobile graphics card.

[@KiumarBy00]

@@leonardobonanno5115 I think I'm stupid 😶 But thanks anyway

[@Jdkieddj]

you are one handsome nerd

[@gravy3858]

racist

[@peeperleviathan2839]

I tried spectra, It sucks. Duna looks ugly and the auroras look disappointing. I’ll gladly take lower fps for a much better looking game. It’s fine if you think otherwise but I think astronomers visual pack should be higher

[@leonardobonanno5115]

I admit that spectra did Duna dirty, there is no way around it. But all of the other atmospheric planets look simply better. Have you seen Laythe and Jool ? Just splendid with all the auroras.

[@peeperleviathan2839]

@@leonardobonanno5115 I have and the atmosphere look great but I still can’t get over the magnetospheres looking so much less impressive.

[@adityaprakashdas2928]

😅😅😅 ihave a potato laptop having 8 gb ram and tons of mod installed... parallax would definitely kill my laptop.... because it did previously..😂😂😂

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Aw man, I'm sorry to hear that. You should check if your laptop supports an extra slot of RAM. Mine did so now I have 16 GB which helps and is not very expensive.

[@hakancanpolat6597]

3090 30 fps

[@leonardobonanno5115]

If you are saying that's how many fps you get out of a 3090 it seems a bit low. I use a 1650 and get the same amount of performance...

[@hakancanpolat6597]

@@leonardobonanno5115 vaow perfect 💯

[@Retroskulll]

I haven't cringed this hard within the first 9 seconds in a LONG time. Calm down bro, you're not a TV show presenter.

[@leonardobonanno5115]

Ok, wannabe "Gaming and Breakfast" (has zero gaming videos). Care to show everyone how you'd make your very based intro? Since your expertise clearly exceeds mine.

[@peeperleviathan2839]

I was mad about astronomers visual pack being so low but why do you just have to be rude

[@OriaXu]

Yea.. referencing TV, a dying medium that is literally replaced by enthusiastic people like this. Smart comparison! And like everything, if you don't like it, don't watch it. KSP stuff only has a reach to its direct fans, so yea, most will be very hyped in videos.

[@Retroskulll]

Really grasped at anything in my comment to use as your "A-HA!!" moment, huh? Do you need a cookie?

[@Retroskulll]

@@leonardobonanno5115Also, your response literally reeks of emotional immaturity. At least attempt to be a man.

[@asimplesolution5351]

How to accure maybe...

[@leonardobonanno5115]

I'm not sure what you mean