Version History

This is a list of all the changes since the start of the development of KSS.

0.1 (Sep 15, 2016)

• Retextured Voonian moons
• Retextured Trytho to make it more Triton-like
• Retextured Moho to make it more Mercury-like
• Improved various textures
• Tweaked some atmospheres
• Worked on surface brightness (more distant bodies will feel darker)
• and more ...

0.2 (Sep 26, 2016)

• New Laythe
• New coronas
• Added Kerolon and Kirilim (no planets yet)
• Added The All 
• Added compatibility for scatterer, texturereplacer, sigmabinary, ... 
• Patches will follow (see forumthread)

0.3 (Oct 6, 2016)

• Added option between Terraformed Duna and Overhauled Duna

• Added biome maps for Duna
• Retextured Laho
• Fixed atmospheric pressures
• Various little fixes

0.3.1 (Oct 7, 2016)

• FIXED VERSION (0.3)

• Fixed SOI problems
• Added Jeln
• Added biome map for Laho
• Added new scattererflares for red dwarfs

0.3.5 (Oct 29, 2016)

• Repositioned every star

• Resized various bodies
• Option between Icy Laythe and Shallow Ocean Laythe
• Added Planets around Kerolon
• Added Kormin and Korlon
• Added Interstellar Antennas
• Finetuned some masses
• New Oran, Alym, Erel, Iain Textures
• Tweaked some atmospheres
• Changed Starlightcolors
• ...

0.4 (Nov 22, 2016)

• New textures for gasgiants
• New detailed textures for planets and moons
• New terrain textures - thx to galileo from SVT
• Repostioned some planets
• Fixed atmospheres
• Fixed star luminosity making solar panels almost useless further than Jool, around red/brown dwarfs (TEST)
• Fixed star positions and SOI
• Fixed various bugs 
• Started working on scatterer and clouds -> main focus for the next update

0.4.5 (Jan 4, 2017)

• A lot of retexturing
• Terrain texturing
• Minmus is now a comet
• Added Ceth, Klip, Eran, Isme, Aryl...
• Calculated new parameters for a lot of bodies
• Cold Duna and Icy Laythe are now standard

0.5 (Feb 12, 2017)

• Rewrote configs for VanillaPlanets
• Retexturing and new details
• Added new planets
• Added Kelin to the Kirb-Kernim System transforming the system into Nova Kirbani
• Added the Kelaris System
• Added biomemaps to all the celestials
  • They are not all assigned yet, meaning 1/4 of the biomes do work. (all the habitable worlds should work)
• Some planets have groundscattering (test)
• Calculated new parameters for a some bodies
• Added new descriptions for every major planet.
• Added Visual mods: Scatterer, EVE, DistantObject, TextureReplacer
• A lot more

0.6 (Apr 23, 2017)

• Reduced KSS with 300 Mb
• Converted textures to .dds (saves RAM)
• Other improvements to save RAM
• Renamed the Kerbol StarSystem folder: KSS
• Added several new planets and retextured others
• Added a few KSS flags
• All atmospheric bodies have now custom atmospheres (floatcurves)
• All planets have sciencevalues and working biomes!
• New sciencedefs for Mun, Moho, Eve, Duna, Dres, Pol and Laythe
• Compatibility with GPP (will be improved over time), Community Resources (TEST) and Researchbodies
• Custom gradients (when not using visuals)
• Improvements and more terraindetails
• Added groundscattering to several celestials
• Starspots and better/improved star colors
• Fixed starbrightness
  • M/K types will emit a lot less energy than Kerbol, bigger stars will emit more
• Fixed the invisible force field around The Creator, but you're no longer able to find The Creator in the trackingstation
• First attempt to add surface temperatures and exospheres to some celestials in the Kerbol system
• First attempt on a plasma engine (resource: helium (tanks provided) - needs more work - test it with unlimited fuel)
• KSS loadingscreen
• 'New EVE' clouds + scatterer improvements (clouds sometimes dont show up - will be fixed!)
• Kelnis System (Optional)
• Should be career ready
• Bux fixes

0.6.1 (May 2, 2017)

• Bug fixes
• New picture for loading screen

0.7.1 (October 1, 2017)

• Kerbol StarSystem renamed to Kerbal Star Systems
• Chur - Analogue of comet Churyumov Gerasimenko
• Thes - Proteus analogue
• Nian - Titania analogue
• Ilum - moon of Hypat
• Hal - Haumea analogue
• Nyla made into an analogue of Nereid/repositioned
• Eeloo's texture redone to be more like Enceladus
• Duna looks more like Mars
• Jeln retextured
• Trytho retextured
• Umnyl, Aryl, and Im retextured
• Mun texture rotated
• Pol's texture modified
• Eeloo gets geysers (when EVE installes)
• Kerbin's texture reverted to modified stock version but improved
• Naith retexture/repositioned
• Various improvements and bugfixing
• custom brightnesscurves for all the stars
• Kerbol got a realistic atmosphere, corona, ...

• Using the 'new' version of EVE
• Moving clouds for gas giants
• Stock sunflares are back if visuals are uninstalled
• Use of CTTP groundtextures instead of the old ones
• More custom sciencedefs
• New Stellar Bodies
• Updated Parts
• Custom groundscattering

0.7.2 (December 10, 2017)

• Added a revamped Kerolon System containing 22 new celestials
• Added the Kelar System
  • System contains Hetoo, Lyrne and Tesyl. More will be added in the future.

• Added Kereksus (neutron star) and Kerulum

• Kerbol system:
  • Jool is retextured
  • Added rings to Hal
  • Retextured Pol
  • Tropical Laythe reinserted into the game
  • Kuiper Belt analogue added using asteroids

• Nova Kirbani System
  • Renamed some of the biomes on several planets to be more exciting.

• Kelnis System
  • Renamed the biomes to make them more exciting.

• Kormin System
  • Rings around Tide

• Karkua
  • Mass increased to become a supermassive black hole.
  • Moved much closer to The All to prevent detection

• More custom sciencedefs
  • *Fixed apostrophe errors in multiple sciencedefs
  • Silne, Iain, Keles, Esle, Cal, Dalne, Hesmin, Dunem, Alar, Um, Irnil, Orph, Trytho, Sern, Erel, Mork, Phain, Leyn, Rav, Bop, Gilly, Kerolon, Kerilim

• Lore
  • Black Pyramid on Duna

• Visuals
  • Complete overhaul of clouds and auroras
    This is a result of a copyright issue caused by Part 1 of KSS
  • Redone engine particles for the plasma engine
  • Flares for Karkua and The All
  • Total retexturing of all stars
  • Smoother light curves for all stars
  • Geysers on Icy Laythe and Eeloo

• Parts
  • Micrometeorite Shield: 16m in diameter and non-inflatable

0.7.3 (December 11, 2017)

• Bug fixes for version 0.7.2

0.8 Pre-release (July 22, 2018)

• Pre-release for 0.8
• Kermes Cluster made into the Kermes Galaxy
  • Dozens of stars added
  • Some stars repositioned into a galactic shape
• Basic and Kerbol Systems only along with the galaxy
• Added Installation X and Novus
• Updated Visuals
• New parts

July 28, 2018

• Nova Kirbani released for 0.8
  • Narath is updated
    • Got a few moons
  • Iain has liquid oceans on the surface
  • Vael is colored darker

August 2, 2018

• Added the new skybox

August 3, 2018

• Released Kerolon System
  • Re-textured Rilna

August 6, 2018

• Released Kormin System
  • Ves - Small dwarf planet with large craters and a thin atmosphere
  • Nae - Duna-sized planet, has signs of liquids in the past but they froze over

August 10, 2018

• Released Kelnis System
  • Rewritten based on new observations on the TRAPPIST-1 System
• Released Tropical Laythe
  • Geysers now appear on the surface

0.8.1 (August 12, 2018)

• Added compatibility with GPP and OWR (more will come)
• Changed SOI's of stars in the Kelios Arm, based on mass now (not star type)
• Various small fixes
• Updated README-file

0.8.2 (August 16, 2018)

• Restructured the entire mod for easier installation and updates in the future.
• Added compatibility with GPP, GPO, OWR and ExtraSolar
• Added patches for Galileo's Sun Flares and Instantiator
• New foliage for Nova Kirbani
• Various fixes
• Updated README-file
• much more

0.8.2.1 (August 23, 2018)

• Fixed black holes and Installation X
• Stable orbits are possible without exploding
• Sulph's atmosphere is smoother and its oceans will gradually melt your craft

0.8.2.2 (August 26, 2018)

• Retextured Narath
• Added Methus, a planet around Karkua.

August 28, 2018

• Retextured Sulph