Modding KSP to possible KSP3 Graphics Level

Deferred Rendering + Scatterer and EVE + Parallax + TUFX
Best possible Graphics settings with all latest mods. Skipping to how KSP3 should look like.
==== Patreon ====
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==== Music ====
(In order of appearance):
Star Citizen Launcher Music
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Thanks for watching!

[@geoe1856]

We getting our computers on life support with this one🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@YevhenSavchuk]

the mods arent even that hard on your pc, I have them on my laptop, works great!

[@darksars3622]

@@YevhenSavchuk the problems start when you try to install other mods

[@LowerBudgetOppenheimer]

@@YevhenSavchuk nah eve clouds tank your performance

[@wvh-pups]

@@YevhenSavchukyou need atleast 1060 for volumetric clouds, can't blackrack just optimize clouds or scatterer?

[@CASA-dy4vs]

@@wvh-pupsmy mobile 1650 eats volumetric clouds like nothing idk how because that gpu is super bad

[@theshaggycreeper220]

I still think the coolest part of the EVE clouds mod is that all of the weather you can see from orbit is actually what’s happening if you were to enter the atmosphere

[@SWDennis]

Creating my own KSP3 graphics with mods

[@EnderCoolPoshalka]

Incredibly.

[@astronomicstudios4261]

It looks incredible, even better then KSP2

[@999Juice4ever]

​@@astronomicstudios4261 not that hard to beat ksp2

[@astronomicstudios4261]

@@999Juice4ever When did i say KSP2 is hard to beat?

[@999Juice4ever]

@@astronomicstudios4261 you said: Even better than ksp2. And this mod collection looks incredible. You basically implied that ksp 2 looks incredible, which it does not

[@delayed_control]

You have omitted distant object enhancement, it's why the stars disappear when looking at a bright surface of the planet, scatterer doesn't do it on its own

[@SWDennis]

I used some more mods. Like Restock, Waterfall etc. But the impressive effects come from the mods mentioned in the video.

[@VanlockFR]

@@SWDennis thx Dennis ! Would be neat if you linked each mod in the description :)

[@TriptonicKerbal]

Love the Star Citizen music in this one. It's called First Light by Pedro Camacho.

[@Nerpyc]

Pedro the GOAT !

[@LeonardoDaVinci01]

Was just about to comment this, yeah Pedro is amazing! I hope Dennis features some of his other works, I’m pretty partial to “Loreville” and “Fragile”

[@Schwing27]

Pedro composes incredible music

[@zanesnep]

facts

[@the_argonau.t]

the fact that I still get recommended you vids after almost 10 years is unbelievable. never change swdennis

[@JustBadAtGames]

THIS! literally just had the same thought. all with no voice and no face reveal. what a fucking legend

[@verdaderoken]

Can't believe stock looked like that after being used to the mods. Great respect to all the modders

[@Napoleon_e2]

lol what did you expect from a 12 year old game

[@verdaderoken]

obviously i was talking about how i'm used to mods. i know it's a very old game

[@Napoleon_e2]

@@verdaderoken yeah

[@sebastianwlodarczyk]

Holy heck, that looks gorgeous! My peasant PC kitted out for games from 9 years ago chugs with just 2 of those mods installed, but still- it looks amazing!:)

[@vovacat1797]

Never before has Kerbin felt so much like home. Now we need some hand-crafted infrastructure and biuldings mods so that the planet feels more alive and, well, you can turn KSP into an entire story-driven experience set on Kerbin.

[@Damien.D]

Unleash KSP in open source, and the community will make a real life real time solar system simulation out of it...

[@hdeharry1292]

do i have news for you

[@wvh-pups]

@@hdeharry1292yesn't

[@mr.hashundredsofprivatepla3711]

@@hdeharry1292what’s the news

[@FatovMikhail]

@@hdeharry1292 what news? i thought most of the original ksp source code was lost, that's what ksp2 devs said. and i don't think ksp2 source code will be useful at all

[@linecraftman3907]

​@@mr.hashundredsofprivatepla3711There is a full scale real solar system mod and you can have principia mod which models orbital interactions correctly where every planet is pulling on each other at the same time

[@NickBDesigns]

Great demonstration of how beautiful these mods work with each other

[@retrosniperrus]

As a car builder in ksp i once tried to use hyper realistic graphics turning my KSP into Forza Horizon with 10 fps. After a while some graphic mods broke but for anyway that was great experience

[@6Twisted]

Parallax needs to fix the scale of it's vegetation. 10m+ rockets shouldn't be dwarfed by grass. And we have KSP2 graphics now, but we need some performance mods too. I cba to play half of the time because I don't want to wait 10 minutes for it to load.

[@CASA-dy4vs]

Kerbals are super short like 4 ft or something so the parts they make aren’t that big so natural grass based off of our grass is realistic.

[@peeperleviathan2839]

@@CASA-dy4vsthe measurements aren’t different to ours, it’s still in regular meters

[@CASA-dy4vs]

@@peeperleviathan2839 yeah regular meters to them

[@comediangj4955]

The creator have talked about the reason behind the scale, more small objects= more rendering. It will tank performance.

[@FatovMikhail]

it looks nice though, makes kerbals look even more cute

[@astronomicstudios4261]

KSP3 COMING SOON - 2100

[@ForzaMonkey]

👽

[@Curly_Horse]

It's already here with these mods

[@geoe1856]

gets canceled after the day 1 patch

[@lunabell-2]

@@geoe1856 gets cancelled before the first beta release and still won't get a refund

[@LDTV22OfficialChannel]

*2041

[@DelayRGC]

Truly amazing just how gorgeous the community has managed to turn this game, isn't it?

[@All_Original]

My computer as a force-feed it mods: 💣💥☢

[@GamerRoman]

Seems like we never needed a KSP 2.

[@r3dp9]

The biggest thing KSP needed was a less janky and more consistent physics engine. To what extent KSP2 can deliver on that remains to be seen. Personally, I think KSP2 shot themselves in the foot by planning for so many big features before laying a proper foundation. "KSP but less buggy" would be enough to sell the product. Mods, updates, and expansions can fill in any gaps later.

[@FatovMikhail]

@@r3dp9 it wasn't that bad when it didn't come to surface interactions. but having conservation of energy, implulse and momentum in the fundamentals of the engine could be great. i don't think there's a good looking game engine that provides that out of the box.

[@Blox117]

@@r3dp9 ksp2 is dead bud

[@OneLabToRuleThemAll]

Maybe the real KSP2 was all the KSP1 mods we made along the way

[@LeonardoDaVinci01]

Epic for using the Star Citizen music, KSP really has improved!

[@123reivaj]

Very impressive! Star Citizen's music matches perfectly :D

[@Ahibasabala]

looks amazing, great work!

[@Rhodes2001]

WOW Okay! The clouds are insane!

[@dalechristopher3917]

looks amazing! thanks!

[@MizaT11]

Really wish the source code for the game leaked, so the community could work on patching all the bugs and performance issues so these mods can run perfectly smooth (and the game as a whole) :( what specs are you rocking?

[@leonardobonanno5115]

A certified KSP 3 moment!

[@josebarria3233]

Sooner or later we're gonna get ray tracing in KSP

[@wvh-pups]

i think scatterer is ray-tracing, or more like ray-marching, and clouds or singularity are too

[@mattdoerr2243]

May computer is gonna end up like an atomic bomb

[@YMandarin]

0:40 I feel like this would be a better thumbnail, it shows parallax and the scatterer water

[@Mr21December2012]

WOW! That sunset!

[@frenchtantan]

Now all we need is TURD config for all the mods that add parts and we're golden! ... and better re-entry+atmospheric drag effects.

[@axelarnaud7547]

I also use Distant Object Enhancement, True Volumetrics Clouds, Waterfall (for the plumes)

[@SWDennis]

Volumetrics Clouds are actually the latest EVE version. The one from Blackrack's Patreon. Distant Object Enhancement, Waterfall, Restock and some more were also in used in the video.

[@StealerOfPreciousThings]

Mods are wild nowadays 💀💀💀

[@felixfischer5736]

Soo many nice mods. I would love to get a nice list with all must have mods to have a good new experience with KSP1

[@aasishwarsaravana5748]

Damn it! The modded ksp with star citizen ost in the background makes me sad 😢! Ksp2 couldve expanded onto become essentially a sandbox version of building star citizen type ships, if only it had not been cancelled! I hope modders make custom VTOL (nuclear) thruster engines paired with RCS so that we can make some spaceships seen in star citizen.

[@tinnguyentrung1392]

Love your content, keep it up

[@jordbored1502]

The fact that it *actually* has Cumulonimbus clouds is crazy, compared to most other games and their mods where even if it's thundering they're nowhere to be seen. There are truly only a few gems like this (If you couldn't tell it's my favorite looking cloud).

[@there_are_bugs_under_your_skin]

now we just need stratonimbus clouds

[@adr1uno638]

Look how he pimped my boy

[@321GhostRider123]

Downloading all mod's now, can't wait to see the impact on fps xD

[@AerodyContent]

If KSP can do dynamic clouds and weather. Then there is hope for star citizen. Can't wait what. CIG makes of it

[@CathrineMacNiel]

Oh it would be awesome, seeing dynamic snowfall over Microtech, Acid Rain over Hurston... yeah 10 years or so down the road :D

[@fracturedgamer420]

I just thought I had my KSP modded game looking good, but wow, yours is just breath takingly spectacular. Great job

[@delayed_control]

Also: what mod adds sounds to motors and wheels?

[@matyasnovak9539]

Yes

[@TriptonicKerbal]

Rocket sound enhancment.

[@HarryLarsson-b2n]

i wish collisionfx was still updated

[@pumpkinpiesoupcat]

i do too, whenever ive tried using it, it drops my frames to about... 3 💀💀

[@CNWPlayer]

collisionfx reupdated?

[@slipangle3027]

@@CNWPlayer hasn't been updated in 4 years.

[@HarryLarsson-b2n]

@@CNWPlayer ?

[@CNWPlayer]

@@slipangle3027 still works though

[@Zerospacedude]

KSP Vanilla: CPU: AAAHHHHH 🔥 GPU: Hahaha 😂🤣 KSP Modded: CPU: AAAHHHHH 🔥 GPU: AAAHHHHH 🔥

[@ThermonuclearGaming1]

If we just had the modders in a collective and all these mods easily work together or in a installer package. This is great, it looks so polished. Also, great music, is it getting Star Citizen Graphics?

[@criticallard2090]

Okay, I'm tempted to return KSP 1 now. The modding teams are the developers now.

[@Spacewalker1870]

would be cool to see realistic wave physics on the coastline

[@YMandarin]

I didn't know about deferred rendering, seems quite nice

[@linecraftman3907]

It just came out

[@Nikson2981]

it's very new and as such it's still quite buggy and riddled with compatibility issues but it is very promising

[@ctrlaltrepeat245]

Gonna have to get a goddamn quantum supercomputer to run this at 30 fps

[@SpaceOutpost]

Hey, I've got a pretty similar setup to yours (Ryzen 5 5600X, RX 5700 XT & 32GB of RAM). Wondering what kind of performance you are getting with all of these mods as I am torn between getting a 1080p or 1440p monitor. Thanks, I love ur videos!

[@wxb200]

Woah. This was awesome!

[@iHouqLF]

I LOVE THE STAR CITIZEN MUSIC

[@ajax5117]

you forgot restock and restock plus for the vehicle parts remasters and waterfall for the engine effects

[@codeyisafk9487]

Ksp be looking better than real life. :’(

[@aimiliatzifa9369]

You know we should start a fund raiser for some KZbinr in order to buy ksp and start a new company making updates

[@אילןדנושבסקי]

I have a question: How many computer resources will be needed for this to work at a stable 60 frames per second?

[@jonathanbout]

All those mods make it go from a spaceflight sim to a solar system sim

[@nosmirck]

Hello! can you make a detailed tutorial on how to install and configure these mods for a total beginner? thanks!

[@notsomadscientist9602]

That looked like an entirely different game!

[@rubikscubeworld9332]

Hi SWDennis, I doubt you will read this message, but I wanted to know what mod you use to make the motor noises, when your rover was driving on the ground.

[@SWDennis]

forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/179579-1123-rocket-sound-enhancement-plugin-v096-070922-config-pack-v124-070922/

[@rubikscubeworld9332]

Wow, the legend himself responded!! Thank you so much!! Love your videos btw!

[@viktoriyawolf]

Kerbin reminds me of earthlike on Space Engineers.

[@mrmaniac3]

Is it unrealistic to have such a clear view of the Kerbal galactic plane, whether on Kerbin at night or on the Mun, in orbit, or otherwise? It looks strange seeing it completely disappear in every instance here, since we can see it from our own planet's surface sometimes

[@jackturner8472]

its pretending to have light focusing. The simplest explanation is: You can't see stars during the day.

[@FatovMikhail]

there was a comment that distant object enhacement mod is required for that, just add it and stars will reappear. didn't check that though

[@Obiterarbiter]

these mods are gonna turn my computer into a claymore lmao

[@rexprogamer2093]

The music from star citizen🔥🔥🔥

[@VanlockFR]

Sadly we'll never get a KSP2 , but rejoice we barely need it !

[@pneusur]

Man, I would install these mods if ksp wasn’t already a slideshow on the lowest settings

[@cola98765]

KSP frame rate is tied to physics engine. if your FPS drops are tied to big crafts then note that fuel crossfeed seems to be really performance intensive... to solve that I recommend procedural parts.

[@ICKY427]

whats the framerate like with this stuff vs stock? also what if you use the mods but back off the graphics? ive never dove into ksp mods so i dont know what im in for. i wasnt really thinking about ksp1 mods with ksp2 coming, but now i am.

[@Coolae450]

I've always wondered if it is possible to use Unigine 2 Sim Edition to make a KSP like game.

[@versegen2]

yoooo star citizen music based

[@justabasichuman5057]

this is amasing

[@Skravich]

We got KSP3 before KSP2 final update

[@davidjurgs9257]

What mod are you using to provide the motor notices on your rovers mate??

[@FatovMikhail]

Rocket sound enhancment

[@williamriisager8994]

"You can't see shit"

[@sizzlet01]

Would love to see these mods with some parts mods too like restock!

[@SWDennis]

I used Restock in this video :)

[@sizzlet01]

@@SWDennis Oh, neat! The rovers were pretty simplistic (focusing on the graphics) so I can see how I couldn't tell.

[@Certified_Goober1]

Famous last words: "MY COMPUTER-"

[@theletsplayer9503]

Thats very cool, but am I the only one who really wants a mod that turns the re entry plasma into the one that was seen on ITF-3/4? If that exists, whats it called? Because I looked everywhere and all I saw was people asking the same thing

[@aleksandermrowinski3891]

I would like to see the same, but with an FPS counter and PC specs

[@flyguy1237]

Do the added rocks/trees/etc. have collision models or are they purely visual?

[@Apoux147]

The last time I tried it (over a year ago) you could choose with or without colision in the mod options. But it was only for rocks on the ground, not for trees and plants.

[@flyguy1237]

@@Apoux147 Thanks

[@mephisto8101]

Kind of depends. Even with colissions on, some trees on Kerbin are without colliders. Also, if the rock density of some moons is too high, you can tune it down in the config. I play with collisions enabled and 30% density values.

[@KingPOF]

Great, now I have to mod KSP again for 14 hours and play it for 5.

[@thecatgod280]

No way there is F-ing THUNDER IN ⚡️

[@real_armadillo]

Now with KSP2 basically being dead, it's soothing to know that you can go back to KSP1 and its fantastic mod community without it being a downgrade.

[@duckman12498]

someone should make a point of interest mod for ksp, litter the worlds with weird places to visit, would be awesome

[@cat-nl4sv]

i wish i could run parallax

[@masonbrasher]

Now we just need a mod to fix KSP's horrendous UI with something like KSP 2

[@jasonmonks8423]

My god have mercy on your computer

[@WasatchWind]

Now if only we could fix the blue windows lol

[@linecraftman3907]

press alt+c lol

[@Danger_N00dle]

Uh, I don't remember EVE doing weather effects like that. I remember cool clouds and atmospheres but that's about it

[@everybodyants]

This is just insane. The graphics that are possible are on another level. why don't they just make the normal game that pretty... oooh. they did. and then they killed it.

[@sethproaps8899]

What mod adds the rain on the windshield sound? I need it!

[@thebrick.1385]

What tufx profile

[@SWDennis]

Blackracks

[@colemyers6664]

How do you get the weather with rain and lightning and big clouds

[@carlosalvarez7668]

Do you use Blackrack's TUFX profile or do you have your own profile?

[@SWDennis]

I'm using his profile, but modified it a bit

[@Maxillz]

Are there any mods to improve the textures or quailty of the ship models? I feel that is what feels the oldest now.

[@SWDennis]

Restock. You cann see it on my Rover

[@villager5633]

This proves ksp needed no sequel.

[@fipachu]

Add Restock for parts that look like actual designers worked on them and you have KSP looking like a modern game. (At fraction of the FPS btw 😭)

[@dallor09]

do you know where I can find a tutorial on how to use eve settings I have eve installed with RSS but my clouds are 2D images

[@SWDennis]

You need Blackrack's Patreon version

[@LowerBudgetOppenheimer]

I have a GitHub for the clouds

[@thejhonnie]

I liked the part when the rocket launched. Oh wait. Lol

[@zityef]

Reminds Simple rockets 2 (now Juno New Origins) I sincerely hope that this game will become as popular as KSP because it is in many ways better than KSP

[@alvijavez632]

Yooo so much mods for ksp1

[@Mechaghostman2]

Still no PBR materials. :(

[@redgamer821]

Any idea how this would run with a i7-13700H, RTX 4050 (mobile), and 16 gb of DDR5 ram?

[@connormartin9644]

My guess is that it will run at a minimum of 10fps. beond that I cannot guarentee, though my PC with an I3 10100f and RX6600XT with 16gb DDR4 can run 10+fps with 300 mods. You do have a nice PC/laptop tho!

[@jackturner8472]

4050😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@redgamer821]

@@jackturner8472 What's so funny?

[@linecraftman3907]

It ran great in my 1060, you should be good Also all but the cloud mod is free so just try it out and see

[@jackturner8472]

@@redgamer821 horrible gpu you got scammed

[@The_ISD_Guy]

Did you use EVE or the Redux version of it?