This KSP Graphics mod is GAME-CHANGING! - Parallax Mod Showcase

[@MattLowne]

I hope you enjoy the video! There's a link to download the mod in the video description, and also here: forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/197024-110x-parallax-a-pbr-terrain-shader-111-supports-stock-planets/ Make sure you read the installation instructions, as there are a couple of dependencies. I am running the latest version of KSP (as of 14-Nov-2020). I had to use the "Kopernicus: Bleeding Edge" rather than the normal version of that mod to get things to work properly.

[@luizfernando4497]

Idk what to say, im early, but the mod is cool :D

[@scubaduckk]

I agree the mod looks really good!

[@HeidenLam]

Thanks! Also, the mod is cool!

[@filipmakljenovic1762]

video looks good!

[@quinnmarchionini7997]

Could you do a video on real plume, I want to see how much better it would look on your pc

[@puiu102006]

"scatterer and parallax are recommended together" my PC: "PLEASE STOP GIVING HIM IDEAS"

[@rockwellwebb8586]

Scientist go up to ur PC they be like"your PC is quite literally plasma it's just nothingness"

[@Flyguy4500]

I feel ya man

[@benwillems8584]

@@rockwellwebb8586 when a mod turns your rig into antimatter

[@somepvpguy69]

Sir my PC is like 0.1 percent like this its insanely strunk like socksfor1's PC but I can do it for u

[@ExploreWithIsaac]

I killed a PC once...

[@pablogarin]

I play a lot of KSP in career mode, so I'm always taking tourist contracts for the money, and a mün-minmus trip is a must on those or you'll find yourself launching 2-3 times the same tourist just to complete the contract... Of course once you have infrastructure in orbit it's a lot cheaper to do... I have a tourist transport vessel the size of a building, reusable landers and mining colonies on both moons... and of course a fleet of passenger SSTOs... I simply love this game...

[@sixstringedthing]

Tourism contracts are boring as hell, but once you're in a position to complete full itineraries for a dozen or more tourists in one mission with reusable spacecraft, they become a lot more interesting and lucrative. :) I always get amused by the thought of many Kerbals tourists receiving the special surprise announcement that even though they only paid to go to the Mun, they're about to do that plus land on Minmus plus orbit around the sun before coming home again. What a bargain! :D

[@azthek31511]

@@sixstringedthing or horror with an unexpected 1 year journey instead of 5 hour journey haha

[@DragonMoth34]

@@sixstringedthing Imagine being those few rich kerbals who paid for both hearing they could have just paid for one

[@sixstringedthing]

@@DragonMoth34 *Kerbal Litigation Program* , coming Q4 2022

[@TerribleUsernameAmirite]

KSP devs, after spending nearly a year revamping planet textures: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@RestrictedHades]

They look better

[@ASSIMO]

That shows tha linx should be one of developers.

[@Flyguy4500]

Yes, you are

[@charkie2388]

Well some people like me cannot run parallax but can run the new textures very well so I play with these textures

[@Poatatero]

Yes you are

[@Carnasa]

KSP2 delayed to 2022... GamesLinx: Hold my beer.

[@ASSIMO]

Hi

[@rileyg6107]

Hold my whiskey

[@geryz7549]

Get KSP Interstellar Extended, Parallax, USI or some other colonization mod and maybe some planet pack and boom you basically have KSP2

[@TheBest-lz7gj]

Ik it is so sad

[@rebornranch1386]

SR2: Good I get to get even better

[@mikeksp9177]

"We're playing with mods!" *I NEVER THOUGHT THIS DAY WOULD COME*

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

Me too ^^

[@vovical]

It's only a visual mod, which he has been using for a long time

[@mikeksp9177]

@@vovical still kinda counts

[@starwarsnerd40]

He made a Nuclear SSTO awhile back (Nuclear mod engines, not the stock one)

[@norjainvictus735]

When you play a game for a long period of time, mods tend to freshen it up and make it a less boring experience.

[@randomkerbal]

Having some parts of the rover wheel sink into the ground is actually more realistic, cause it's Mun, it's dusty.

[@captainahab5522]

I think that for added realism the wheels should leave tracks and all landing legs sink a little bit I like the mod However I don’t like how the terrain clips through the rover sometimes and the rover is hovering other times Other than that I think that it is a really cool mod

[@meetoo594]

@@captainahab5522 Yeah, the lander legs look like they are floating above the terrain as well. Very nice looking mod but the parts not looking like they are on the terrain is immersion breaking.

[@Gameslinx]

@@meetoo594 Unfortunately, that's how tessellation works. It's purely visual

[@captainahab5522]

@@meetoo594 Yeah Something that I missed out saying was a slight uncanny valley but with ground

[@meetoo594]

@@captainahab5522 I think minimus works better as the lander legs and rover wheels sink in a bit rather than float above the ground.

[@ВикторФирсов-е9ф]

The Mun looks so real that for a moment I thought that someone photoshoped the lander onto a real photo)

[@Redneck557]

Ya

[@Redneck557]

@Rob With One B 🤣

[@andymy_guy655]

IKR

[@wrengaming1519]

WHICH IS WHAT NASA DID!

[@andymy_guy655]

@@wrengaming1519 proof

[@ooflespoofle3691]

Parallax finally getting some love!

[@hudsonscogin6962]

And your GPU getting some hate

[@dct1769]

@@hudsonscogin6962**your**

[@hudsonscogin6962]

@@dct1769 silence mere mortal

[@Laurton]

@@dct1769 You will never understand us immortal ones.

[@dct1769]

@@Laurton no u

[@matrick1356]

title: "Graphics mod" me: *I SAID PARALLAX FIRST*

[@sharkbitesback2749]

bjojiojioiohi

[@danielwenzel3877]

9:46 There is actually a mod that gives you a 2.5m variant of the science Jr. It's the Science Pancake and I found it on curseforge and it helps a lot than clipping a science Jr. Into the side of a lander can

[@randomkerbal]

Matt is not a fan of mods.

[@danielwenzel3877]

@@randomkerbal Oh, I'm fully aware of that. That mod was just a suggestion incase he actually wanted something like that...

[@zilfondel]

I just stick mine inside the cargo pods.

[@ryanm.191]

What i love about matts commentary is you never know where it’s gonna go and by the sound of it he doesn’t either

[@SteveDK40]

I know you don't use modds often, but, especially considering this video uses a slightly more substantial one than usual, I think it would be really cool if you could do a realism overhaul carrer mode. It could make it more exciting than a normal one.

[@mastershooter64]

yea a RO play through would be awesome but I doubt he has time for that since you generally need to spend more time tweaking everything to not crash and burn so it'd take a bit more time than regular ksp

[@ВикторФирсов-е9ф]

It would be a great tutorial too. I couldn't understand everything myself, so a series like that would be very helpful)

[@QuantumJump451]

@@ВикторФирсов-е9ф I'd strongly recommend watching Justin Bright's Next Small Step series, I've found that works really well as an RO/RP-1 tutorial series

[@Carnasa]

@@mastershooter64 doing a RO career series myself I can absolutely say it takes a ridiculous amount of time to get it done, filming alone for each episode I do takes around 15-20 hours, on top of that Matt would have to learn RO and I’m fairly certain he’s said before he’s not interested. (He also deleted the RO comment in a previous vid which was hilarious)

[@Carnasa]

I’d also recommend checking out a few of the series out there already, Beardy and N9Gaming are currently doing For All Kerbalkind which is great, you’ve got my Kerbal Gets Real, as well as others such as Cosmonaut Crash, Calvin Maclure, SoNotTheHeroType, Justin Bright, there’s quite a lot of content out there already!

[@StahnDAileron]

I find it amusing people are amazed by Matt using mods. He's been using info and graphical mods for quite some time now; this is no different. KER is standard for info; EVE and Scatterer are standard for graphics. This is just a new graphics mod (which looks amazing). He has yet to use a part or gameplay mod, which would definitely be a significant milestone for his KSP videos if he does it regularly. (I think he's used a couple of minor modded parts for his cinematic series.) Personally, I think he should use Nertea's parts mods: they're beautiful parts. I think Matt would love them.

[@ryz_vik]

Imagine Matt using KSPIE

[@colinmaguire3273]

Just found this mod earlier today! Glad to see it's already getting some recognition

[@maxonym_]

This would look extra paired with Restock

[@jsondoan2561]

I tried restock, but for me I had really really terrible performance (like 5 fps) for ships with a lot of rapiers. All the other engines ran fine. Did you have anything like this?

[@maxonym_]

@@jsondoan2561 I have not tried any bigger craft with restock But when I will try I will let you know

[@jsondoan2561]

@@maxonym_ cheers!

[@brumby92]

@@jsondoan2561 that's odd. Restock runs great for me with zero performance hit. Stock parts look pretty poor in comparison after a while 😃 I've gone away from Eve and scatterer to keep the frame rate up with big ships

@Arthur parallax AND spectra? Holy.

[@j.r.7339]

Hey Matt. Because you are always saying, that you can't load the Plane(s) when you're doing a Airlaunched Spacecraft. You can *Use PhysicsRangeExtender (the mod BDArmory requires)* and set the load Range to Global/+make a separate Save for Performance Reasons to Load the Plane and Land it. You can also use the BDArmory Autopilot.**Use PhysicsRangeExtender* (the mod BDArmory requires) and set the load Range to Global/+make a separate Save for Performance Reasons *to Load the Plane and Land it. You can also use the BDArmory Autopilot.* Please like so he sees it.

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

Just a question, how hard is it for the computer when using RangeExtender ? Cause I guess it will give much work for the CPU to process all the crafts in the game, right ?

[@fridaycaliforniaa236]

@@GrandProtectorDark Ok, thx alot

[@j.r.7339]

@@fridaycaliforniaa236 depends on the number of crafts

[@jwg3370]

Imagine NASA being like: Do we make a bigger, better rocket, or make it orange? Orange of course!

[@leifwinter9666]

You see, NASA could paint the rockets white, but because of the amount of costs its better to make it that orange color that everyone knows

[@ryz_vik]

The rocket parts come out of the factory in orange, NASA used to paint white on it, but decided to keep it orange cuz cost reduction and weight reduction

[@avalanchas336]

Just want to say Matt I 100% agree with your "clipping the science can" arguments! It's a laboratory and fits there very well! I also like how you included its roundness into the side of the lander. All good!

[@4l3c_2]

Matt usually: I don't like to talk about my visual mod Matt in this video: P A R A L L A X

[@TheDainerss]

6:18 Only the Apollo 8, 10 and 11 missions used a free return trajectory, so depending on which mission you look at, you are following a similar mission plan to Apollo.

[@UpTheClock]

I like your little game hints. Helps alot.

[@cmdrodimir7742]

That final cut though! Perfect editing, as per usual!

[@brijekavervix7340]

The RCS update sounds nice. Such a pain clipping those single RCS ports into the center of the 4-way RCS blocks so they look decent on space planes

[@sugarking12]

Imagine being sent on a mission to go investigate the new texture pack god installed on the moon

[@brianriley5108]

Damn, this is gorgeous! Thanks for showcasing it!

[@Galerak1]

I feel your pain where the size of the science Jr is concerned, this is why one of my 'must have' mods is the MSP-3000 Material Science Pod. It reduces the experiment to the same size/shape as the mystery goo.

[@LimeJuice0308]

Great as always Matt. Love it

[@lilHamster9t7]

Update if you're watching this video in or beyond 2021, the tesselations now have collisions! it's really cool to see in-game and kind of forces you to drive rovers and buggies at semi-realistic speeds (they can be turned off if you prefer bombing along at high speed though)

[@technoe02]

Dude, you’re so damn good at this I don’t give a fuck if you clip every single option into the lander.

[@lieutenantsupascoop2126]

Matt : how should I maintain the illusion of the boulders having physics? *RAMS ROVER INTO OBJECT*

[@lootrat4556]

Me: scrub who managed to land a lil crew capsule on the mun but no fuel to get back Mat lowne: literally makes landers with buggy’s continues on to minbus what a chad of a gamer.

[@TrippaMazing87]

When a ksp mod has more resolution than your eyes:

[@jakub-kube]

@Barrett Yore definitely not better than your eyes

[@scienceium5233]

@@TheArgentLegend ok apple man

[@SewerShark]

Tesselation means subdividing the geometry (and normally, using a height map to displace the vertices up and down). This is a different approach, it's parallax mapping. Basically, you have several layers stacked on top of the geometry with some transparency (I'm oversimplificating). Think about those videos were an artist paint a golden fish on bucket with resin. There is a paint layer, a resin layer, another paint layer and so on. That's why it looks you are floating over the floor, it's because it is, in fact, flat.

[@hydraz1ne]

Great video! Your channel is amazing!

[@dinin_alone]

Realistic part clipping is fine. I'd say that science jr module was clipped pretty realistically. I'd imagine for this mission, the lander can was made especially for the inclusion of the science jr.

[@GoSlash27]

6:16 You don't have to worry about the free return trajectory. The Apollo missions that brought rovers didn't use one either.

[@Zack-yl2vy]

you should keep this on your main save and make more videos with it. love your videos matt thank you and keep being great! :)

[@rnavstar]

16:48 "1050 ti, you get those like pennys these days." Aged like milk!

[@horatioyen256]

at the time this was posted a 1050 ti was still very expensive

[@Maple_MK]

Parallax is finally getting the recognition it deserves! :D

[@iov5370]

I can already hear my graphics card crying and I haven't even installed it yet.

[@SewerShark]

Parallax mapping is not very GPU intensive.

[@johnt3606]

@@SewerShark it is if you have gt 710

[@SewerShark]

@@johnt3606 Then again, if you have a GT 710, it's time for an upgrade. I know it's not cheap, and I still need to upgrade my gtx 960.

[@johnt3606]

@@SewerShark easy to say when a simple gt 710 costs $50 and every good gpu costs almost as much as a ps5

[@SewerShark]

@@johnt3606 yeah, I know, that's why I'm still with my GTX 960.

[@vortexentertainment4954]

I have been playing KSP since 2011 and I'm just now learning that parts clipping is a sin. . . Welp I'm going to heck. Who's with me?

[@kleinbottled79]

I've been playing maybe about as long as you on-and-off. Really didn't even occur to me to abuse clipping for a long time. Eventually though, you find a situation where you feel like you 'need' to do it. Much like Matt did in this video, if I can make an excuse for myself as to why the clipping is "realistic" I don't feel like it's cheating... too much. Yeah I'm probably going to KSP hell also. I very rarely have any use for cheating in games, but the clipping is toooo useful sometimes. I also really really like the mod that lets you control the scale of most parts with a slider. Almost makes the early game (career) too easy, but wow can you ever dial in your stages to do exactly what you need and no more. So efficient. Much fun.

[@kaleb4184]

"answer to a question nobody probably asked" I was literally just wondering why none of my reticles weren't showing up and a random Matt lowne video helped me out by chance!

[@randomguy0047]

Matt: casually does an entire mission just to showcase a mod

[@inamdarsaquib9528]

Yey.... I was waiting for it. I seen your comment in parallax official channel.

[@redegs_]

you have no idea how long I waited for you to post this video

[@niklas_Slam_O]

Great video😁💪

[@doubledekercouch]

Do a lunar return rover with this texture pack: sample some lunar stuff, send a rover to recover the ‘sample tubes’ and send a tiny rocket to take the samples from the 2nd rover and yoinks them into kerbin

[@crandakcrandall5144]

Good idea

[@MrElielsebastian]

FUCK YES, FINALLY. MATT MODS BEGINS

[@ColdWindPhoenix84]

Totally agree about the science Jr part. And I have done the same. I feel like that clip isn't an unreasonable one. It's not like your clipping 4 fuel tanks into one, or a nuclear engine into a whiplash engine.

[@orbitronsfs404]

Matt lowne is such a humble and fun youtuber, does anyone agree

[@hatman4818]

I like the idea of a science senior part that just has one of all the experiments inside

[@DailyFrankPeter]

Technically speaking, any mod is game-changing by definition... :))

[@floo1465]

yeah, lol

[@unity2838]

You should do a marathon, like build the ship in modules, in orbit around Kerban, then do a continuous mission to multiple planets

[@Saturn_57]

_Why ksp 2 if you can make ksp more_ *REALISTIC...* _Impressed kerbal noises*_

[@slickstretch6391]

Devs: "KSP 2 has been delayed until 2022..." Modders: "K, well in the meantime..."

[@dylandogger4914]

Thanks to you mat I put a river on Duna it was a rough landing but it works

[@quoniam426]

The only problem with Parallax is that the actual ground collider stays the same, so the terrain bumpiness is just visual. Your objects can be half buried or half floating above the ground. Obviously, you would need a super calculator to play KSP if the terrain had the collider changed to that level... So I don't know if I will keep it. The great advantage of the mod is that it makes load on demand textures mandatory so it loads only the textures it needs from one body instead of everything. That saves a lot of RAM. Matt, a mod for the Science Jr being 2.5 m diameter and low in height exists... go look for it (don't remember the name but some of you will, no doubt, Kottabos Games showed in one of his videos). You also have another mod for a small Science junior the size of a Mystery Goo capsule. (is it the MSP 3000?) I now only use Science Jr original parts when there is a specific contract (the modded parts are supposed to work for contracts but they usually don't so just in case...) otherwise I take the MSP 3000 all the time now. Never had the disappearing instrument bug, I alreadyy redeployed instruments successfully (in pure stock of course, this might be a Kopernicus bug for what we know) The FPS loss that you experience comes from stock ground scatter so if you recude it, you'll have less rocks and less FPS losses. If KSP 1 development continues for a while, once all planets and parts have been revamped, they'll have nothing else to do than adding clouds and revamping atmospheres, I guess... unless they add parts in DLCs...

[@deltavgaming3447]

mat you brilliant man i just landed on the mun with parallax and now i see this

[@davros_adl8155]

Garlic Bread

[@equilibrium3736]

indeed

[@Skullbrothers]

I think you mean Displacement, not tesselation. Tesselation is the covering of an object with geometric shapes, like tilling. And that displacement is even a bit stretched, needs more geometry. maybe adaptive geometry.

[@cukkoogaming4755]

It is tessellation because squad create terrain using quad and this mod may add boulder to those quad

[@ur_pilot_4_2day82]

I love how the auto generated captions mistake Matt's British accent for saying "Lambda" instead of Lander.

[@johnpark9801]

The glitch with the deployed science has happened to me many times. Switch kerbals and back usually gets it back. Might take a few times back and forth.

[@Sammy197]

Im so glad they're gonna add a 5th thruster for rcs ports. I used to have to add the other port that points outward, on the side of spaceplanes but now two rcs ports should do the trick.

[@championofthesevengames6448]

Man ive never been so early to a matt lowne vid

[@championofthesevengames6448]

But im still 3 minutes late and i can see the views going up like hell

[@fryingpan37]

lol ikr

[@eliyasne9695]

"tesselation" doesn't mean "puting rocks on the ground", its actually just the name for a texturing method for unlimited surfaces that works by tiling the surface with pieces with compatible edges. Its nothing new, stock KSP already uses a very poor flat tesselation, this mod just gave the tiles deapth. Personally, i think that the could have done it even better with a non periodic tiling like a Penrose tiling.

[@blackrack2008]

Tesselation in this case refers to hardware tesselation which subdivides triangles on the fly on the GPU and then displaces those triangle vertices to create more detail. KSP stock doesn't have "flat tesselation".

[@eliyasne9695]

@@blackrack2008 Oh, ok

[@pegasusted2504]

ok so i am at 8:54 and that looks f'kin amazing :~) doesn't matter now ksp2 been pushed back :~) one thing about the tessalation only being a visual thing. that is until they tessalate the physics proxies they use to match the tessalation texture thereby giving the real bumpy experience as the 2 match then and what it looks like is how it will affect you. They do this in Star Citizen. :~)

[@003nattaradonjuajun4]

I buy this game I make a rocket I launch rocket I Make it to space I destroy kerbin I go back home play Ksp Hold up

[@Blubididar]

This may need a part two now that Parallax 2.0 just came out

[@zachjackson4129]

Matt Lowne's endings are awesome

[@vedranb87]

Love the abrupt ending. xD

[@9bang88]

Lowne’s launch profile looked like my early RP-1 launch profiles

[@rundownpear2601]

Matt, the 3.5 meter tanks are scaled to the SLS and its 8 meter diameter, the 5 meter tanks are scaled to the saturns 11 meter tanks, that’s why the mammoth is 3.5 meters. The 2.5 meter boosters arent based off of any real design, the 1.7 meter boosters are based off the shuttle. The problem with scaling in KSP is the mk3 command pod is the size of an Apollo, not Orion, so the scaling with the shuttle parts is also a nightmare.

[@brokensoap1717]

Saturn V was actually 10.1 meters in diameter not 11

[@ssenzalx]

Matt you almost killed the kerbals on minimus (21:44) while over speedin😂😂😂

[@strigonshitposting793]

Gameslinx is honestly amazing, I love his stuff.

[@subzerosugar7161]

this guy is like the Grian of ksp. Sounds like him too

[@felreymiguel5734]

Grian like from Hermitcraft?

[@subzerosugar7161]

@@felreymiguel5734 yes.

[@felreymiguel5734]

@@subzerosugar7161 wow LoL

[@benjaminbabu8770]

I've neer understood how KSP players build such awesome rockets! Bro ur legit Einstein

[@cassandranoorman7154]

I've had this glitch with the disappearing surface experiments. IIRC They will reappear if you board a vessel that has a storage container with space. It'll appear in there.

[@HermanVonPetri]

Thank you for that. The last time it happened to me I was fortunate enough to have a recent quicksave to load, but I thought I lost the experiment otherwise.

[@Running_Wakko]

Fast fix for that bug. Quick save after picking up the item and reload. And the item is back in his inventory.

[@dunmo9582]

11:48 the kraken wanted a midnight snack most likely

[@g4l4x83]

Ohhh yes! I thought you would do this ;)

[@AKSaleh.Official]

Oh man, the target box F4, thank you!

[@cheaterman49]

2:22 Man, don't say that :-) we like your commentary!

[@j.r.7339]

Really cool!

[@viktorvermeer7084]

Best Matt on youtube (yes even betterthan MattPatt

[@superflypule4484]

The fact thia an appolo style ish mission is amazing

[@siriusk1453]

Matt: Time for a new video! Me: on fcking Mun and Minmus again? *BRUH*

[@oobanoobaisterrible]

The bumpiness is magnificent.

[@slender_snake]

Quick advice: have you considered to put rover wheels on robotic arms and extend them after landing? I found that a spider-like rover is less likely to turn over or crash.

[@fiveoneecho]

It's out! Woooo!

[@TheDutchMusician]

the science jr fits perfect in there i love it

[@millermonsterair]

23:44 SICK wheelie! lol

[@Leifdoe]

I can hear my computer screaming at the thought of me downloading that mod.

[@zerozerosprivate5547]

11:12 don’t worry you will be able to download it (probably)

[@mjw907]

At first I thought GamesLinx was on a haitus, but then he came out with this out of nowhere!

[@CarlosEduardoDonadioMoreira]

Really cool mod, great video, just want to say that technically you can make physics interact with tessalation, there is some techniques to do this.

[@delayed_control]

There's a version of EVE made by scatterer developer Blackrack, which massively boosts performance with volumetric clouds, you might want to use that.

[@kermitkerman8794]

About the science jr. There should be 3 1) science jr > 0.625 low science yield 2) Science! > 1.25. Normal science yield 3) Science Senior > 2.5 improuved science yield (futher increased by other science experiments)

[@nugs2727]

Good video as always ;)

[@PhoenixTwoFiftySix]

Kerbal Space Program provides an accurate representation of being the manager of a Space Program

[@mastershooter64]

Matt an RO series would be awesome! just a suggestion

[@nateimnotgonnasaythat2624]

Me: trying to go to the mun My super powerful engine: Im about to end this whole mans career.