Cumulative 0.0772->0.0831 changelog:

• Fix white atmos on slower GPUs (also delete your atmosphere cache folder)
• Fix interaction between eclipses and city lights causing white planet surface (mostly noticeable on night side)
• Fix "missing property _MainTex" log spam on gas giants
• Fixed wrong scattering on ships near atmosphere edge (most noticeable as blue tint appearing on ships in orbit)
• Fixed flickering sky in reflections (most noticeable on TU parts)
• Fixed flickering clouds in reflections (most noticeable on TU parts)
• Fixed mirror image on scaled planets with in-game AA set to off
• Fix broken multi-star lighting on scaled planets with eclipses on
• Fixed 1/4 res scattering causing scattering to be insanely bright
• Removed dependency on .half files and config tool, atmospheres are now generated directly in-game and cached in "ScattererAtmosphereCache" folder in GameData. Button in-game for clearing this folder if needed. Removed assetPath param.
• New UI to easily generate and preview atmospheres in-game, with options for easily rescaling and thickening/thinning atmosphere, and an option for a quick preview to generate a lower-quality atmo very quickly. Rescale keeps the same looking by making the atmosphere taller and thinner at the same time to conserve the same look.
• Rt And RL params Removed, atmosphere height is now calculated on the fly from the parameters you enter (scale heights + scattering coeffs)
• ExperimentalAtmoScale param removed, use the rescale button
• GlobalAtmoScale param removed, replaced with scaleAtmosphereStartRadius in atmo generation tab directly
• openglThreshold param removed
• Fixed extinction not scaling correctly with atmosphere scale, improved blending of atmospheres (when atmos are in front of each other)
• Fixed horizon related issues where line-like artifacts and a break in the shading appear around the horizon level. A line can still appear on the horizon on very thick atmos, if that happens, the atmo needs to be made thinner or rescaled (taller atmo with lower scattering params will look the same but avoid the artifacts), disabling multiple scattering can also help.
• Fixed concentric circles/ring artifacts appearing on planets/scattering
• Fixed band on the horizon, previously worked around with viewDirOffset param, viewDirOffset param removed.
• Fix planets with tall atmos being lit on the dark side
• Fix clouds being lit on the dark side
• Added option to use single scattering if needed, or you prefer the look for a given planet. Multiple scattering can diverge and become unnaturally bright and show horizon artifacts on very thick atmos, a solution is to disable multiple scattering and to rescale the atmo to be taller.
• New more natural looking blending mode, more hdr-like blending
• Removed projector mode, incompatible with new blending mode.
• Added uncharted tonemapping mode for the atmosphere, produces more vibrant color tones and better contrast, less haze, added ability to switch tonemappers or disable them if you want to use your own tonemapping (TUFX or other).
• Use the new blending for clouds, preserveCloudColors option is now mostly redundant but it will be kept
• Fix clouds on other planets sometimes getting dimmed when it is night time on your current planet
• Support for light from secondary suns, secondary suns don't cast shadows, eclipses, godrays, cloud shadows, caustics/lightrays but can now light up the atmosphere and clouds
• New "cloudIntegrationUsesScattererSunColors" parameter in planetsList: When set to false, will use the real sun colors for clouds (for main sun and secondary suns), when true will use scatterer's sun colors, defaults to false.
• New "sunsUseIntensityCurves" parameter in planetsList: When set to true, both main sun and secondary suns will use the intensity from the star's intensity curve. Defaults to false for retro-compatibility.
• Make scaledSpace eclipses apply only to the main light, additional lights/suns can light up the eclipsed area
• Fix eclipse shader breaking secondary lights on scaledSpace planets with kopernicus load on demand
• Fix eclipses applying to the dark side
• Handle light extinctions for secondary suns in local space
• Fix SMAA blurring text and other cockpit elements in IVA (most noticeable with ASET and rasterpropmonitor)
• Fix godrays too dark when looking at opposite of sun direction
• Fix secondary lights on clouds being too bright
• Matched sky and scattering exposures on Laythe

• Fix log spam "RenderTexture.Create failed: width & height must be larger than 0" when godrays are enabled but terrain shadows and custom shadow resolutions are disabled
• Fix broken ocean shader on Linux/OpenGL
• Fix forced ship recovery from ocean working on non-homeworld planets
• Fix atmospheres not loading with kopernicus planets on the first load outside the home system and requiring a scene change
• Renamed scaled space scattering object to "Scatterer scaled atmo" for Tilt Unlocker

New features:

• Added volumetric shadows (godrays). Godrays use shadow information so the quality is directly tied to shadowmap resolution and shadow distance. Godray strength can be tweaked and godrays respect atmosphere density and optical depth. Only compatible with Directx 11 (requires the unified camera setup)

• Added underwater light rays, derived directly from the caustics textures and config. Brightness of underwater light rays can be adjusted. Light rays are volumetric and respect shadows

• Added craft-wave interactions. Ocean waves are now interactible/collidable. Only compatible with Directx 11 as it requires async GPU readback

• Added override for ship recovery velocity when splashed and wave interactions are on (by default 5 m/s vs 0.3 m/s for stock), to allow ship recovery in wavy oceans

• Added overrides for water drag and crash tolerance when wave interactions are on, to make ships and seaplanes experience better (3x less drag and 3x less crash tolerance than stock by default). Seaplanes are workable but require some care and timing, it's still possible to take off with the stock gull from by going in the same direction as the waves

Fixes:

• Fix scattering effect getting cut off in the distance for RSS/Rescale

• Fix bleached/white mountains in the distance when ascending to orbit

• Fix caustics, extinction lighting, long-distance shadows and ocean shadows not working on Kopernicus suns

• EVE clouds have correct scattering and extinction based on their altitude and no longer behave as if at ocean level

• Fix EVE clouds having dark side appearing lit in some cases with EVE integration on

• EVE clouds + Sunlight extinction respect extinction thickness

• Fix some cloud flickering issues with EVE, mostly noticeable with spectra when using EVE integration

• Fix sunflares being offset from their star/planet in some cases (when the body is small)

• Fix reflections disappearing from ships when using cameraTools after 250 meters distance

• Fix ocean secondary lights causting artifacts/squares on the planet from orbit

• Fix sky reflection on the ocean not respecting sky exposure and alpha settings

• Added configurable skyReflectionStrength setting in ocean config (can be changed from UI but need to rebuild ocean to apply)

• Anti-aliasing on atmosphere effects (fix black edges on horizon, sea and terrain)

• All effects compatible with camera mods (rasterprop etc...)

• Removed godrays to add the previous two points

• Sunlight color is tinted by extinction (objects receive red light at sunset instead of white)

• Fix tsunami/flood bug in KSC scene, and with Kerbal Konstructs

• Fix line break in scattering effect

• Automated and improved transition to orbit with less pops/discontinuities

• Ocean ambient light (ocean visible at night)

• Shadows visible on the ocean (may be buggy in dx11)

• Sunflare visible in supersampled screenshots

• Display scatterer button in KSC menu only

• Improved shadow precision

• Sunflare scales with FOV

• Fix performance high performance hit of dithering in OpenGL on certain machines (thanks @soulsource)

• Don't break stock underwater effect with stock ocean

• Fix buggy ocean surface when lowering ocean resolution

• Fix ocean pixel lights

• Fix various artifacts

• Moved settings that change every time to pluginData

For modders:

• Merged local and scaled settings (scattering+extinction), to reduce clutter

• Removed mapSkyExtinctionRimFade, mapGroundExtinctionFade and _mapExtinctionScatterIntensity

• Added a new setting extinctionThickness, setting it works on localPostProcessing, scaledSpace and clouds. . It works as (1-extinctionGroundFade),

• Removed other redundant/unused settings

• Fixed extinction tint not doing anything

• Mapnode removed, map mode just uses the highest config node

• Created a repo for stock scatterer config, to track config and syntax changes, you can sue it like this: https://github.com/LGhassen/ScattererConfig/compare/acbda29a...master

• Fix not being able to add sky effect to atmosphere-less bodies

-Fix effects flipped when AA is disabled

-Add mod button to toolbar and remove intrusive mod menu from main menu (new icon by cratercracker)

-Display effects in main menu

-Update to 1.5.1

-Fix some issues with banding in the sky and underwater

-Fix flipped post-processing without AA on direct3D

-Fix gas giants visible through other planets

-Fix refraction and post-processing effects not applying to new mk1-3 pod

-Fix postProcessing effects not applying to trees (atmospheric scattering) or fairings (underwater)

-Fix/Minimize white aliasing around objects when in front of the ocean

-Fix ocean "stuck" in the screen and visible on the moon and other bodies

-Fix black sky in KSC view when reverting mission

-Fix halo issue and remove alternateSQRT option

-Fix atmospheres visible through other planets

-Fix nullref issue on planets without PQS

-Recompiled for 1.3.1

-New water effects: Water refraction, depth-based transparency, contact foam and underwater surface and underwater "fog"

-Fixed "break" in the postprocessing effect very close to the camera

-NearClipPlane parameter is back in the config file per popular request, not recommended to mess with it unless you know what you're doing

-Fix some issues with disappearing layer2d (used for spectra glow effects)

-Changed config file structure to improve ModuleManager compatibility

-Added option to disable planet config auto-saving on scene change

-Per-planet EVE integration

-EVE integration: option to preserve cloud colors, prevents "bleached" clouds when using EVE integration

-Fixed a few EVE integration issues causing clouds to appear black on some configs

-Fixed "break" in the postprocessing effect very close to the camera

-NearClipPlane parameter is back in the config file per popular request, not recommended to mess with it unless you know what you're doing

-Fix some issues with disappearing layer2d (used for spectra glow effects)

-Changed config file structure to improve ModuleManager compatibility

-Added option to disable planet config auto-saving on scene change

-Per-planet EVE integration

-EVE integration: option to preserve cloud colors, prevents "bleached" clouds when using EVE integration

-Fixed a few EVE integration issues causing clouds to appear black on some configs

-Added kopernicus ring shadows, rings can now cast shadows on planets (if using the new EVE integration, the shading may not look right, it's better not to have clouds on a planet that has rings ATM, old cloud shading works fine).

-Sunflare changes intensity and color when seen through Kopernicus rings.

-Added sun flare ghost fade-out after a configurable distance.

-Effects now work in tracking station.

-Fixed atmospheres wobbling when observing far away planets in map view, ie planets that the active vessel is not orbiting.

-Fixed ocean reflections and foam being very faint.

-Fixed "experimental viewdir offset" flipping directions sometimes, this should fix the band over the horizon.

-Fixed re-entry effects rendering behind ship.

-Removed nearClip Parameter and fixed "slicing" on objects close to camera.

-Fixed ocean and postprocessing shaders causing artifacts on Texture Replacer's reflections.

-Fixed high ambient light issue on ship when disabling ambient light in scaledSpace.

-Fixed whole screen being tinted with color of sunflare when being very far from sunflare source

-Fixed rectangular artifacts on sunflare ghosts

-Sunflare now shows correct extinction from all distances, previously all extinction effects disappeared when the PQS is disabled.

-Planets now have an individual "mainSunCelestialBody" setting. Useful for multi-star system mods.

-Fixed OpenGL on windows

-Added potential fix for atmosphere halo (if it doesn't work, try switching it off)

-Switched sky shaders to soft blending

-Possibility to set name the main celestial body considered as the sun (useful for kopernicus)

-Fixed ocean spazzing out when zooming out or rotating camera

-Multiple lens flares support

1.2 version of this release is also available on the forum

-Godrays no longer cause black trails behind ships/buildings

-Fixed weird halos around planet

-Fixed 3rd sun flare ghost displaying image of 2nd ghost

-Fixed compatibility with Directx11

-Fixed lens flare in OpenGL

-Fixed weird looking eclipses on Jool

-Doubled number of sun flare ghost instance slots and added a ghost texture slot

-Sun flare now fades out when zooming in on the sun so the sun surface is visible

-Added option to enable light sources to work with the ocean (big performance hit at the moment)

-Mostly fixed horizon line artifacts

-Ocean now appears in supersampled screenshots

-Issue where ocean flickers and bobs around with camera movements appears to be fixed

-Moved fourierGridSize option to the main menu (option with the biggest effect on ocean performance)

-Updated the "render on top of eve clouds" option to match EVE's new renderqueue (gets rid of weird terminators with EVE)

-Tweaked and recompiled shaders for unity 5 (should get rid of some rendering issues new to unity 5)

-Terrain shadows are now disabled by default to avoid heavy artifacting in dx9

-Fixed eclipses nor working correctly in map view when viewing planets other than the active one.

-Much faster, nearly instantaneous loading, reverting a flight you no longer have to wait 10 seconds, effects enabled in map view for planets other than the active one and will load on demand

-.raw format replaced by .half format, which enable faster laoding and smaller filesize, if you created your own .raw files, they will be converted automatically to .half the first time the planet is loaded (make sure to delete any existing .half files when you copy over new .raw files)

-Option to disable scaledSpace ambient light (celestial bodies appear realistically lit and will display as crescents in the sky)

-Restored the sun corona.

-Option to ignore renderType tags, keep this on for the time being as rendertype tags seem to be gone in 1.1 and the postprocessing shader won't work without them.

-No longer need to reload the tables when switching fullscreen/windowed, only ocean needs to be reloaded.

-Added an ocean offset reset when it gets bigger than 20000, avoids floating point precision issues resulting in artifacts or a blocky-looking ocean when traveling a large distance over the ocean such as doing a sub-orbital hop or doing a fast re-entry.

-Window positions are persistent.

-Gui keys are rebindable through the config file.

-Fixed lens flare not occluding correctly on bodies without atmosphere

-New option to draw the atmosphere over EVE clouds: Fixes strange-looking terminators when using both EVE and scatterer and looks smoother in general, however it makes the transition from PQS to scaledSpace more problematic and introduces some new issues. Can be toggled of from the main menu or for individual planets throught the planetsList.cfg file.

-Fixed draw order issue where clouds on Jool render over Laythe's sky.

-Partially fixed compatibility with telescope mods: Will work correctly in high orbits (>160 km) with the planet rendering correctly and no overlaying layers, however will get some interference from the postprocessing shader when PQS is active (below 160km for Kerbin).

-Visor reflections (TextureReplacer's reflection plugin) should also be fixed, with the same limitations as the telescope mods.

-Fixed pink square that appears near the player's craft

-Fixed extinction tint not working in sky shader and postprocessing shader in OpenGL

-Fixed blue screen and tilted camera issue when entering KSC

-Added godrays: Early WIP, disabled by default, these work best with good terrain so turn up your terrain quality. Looks best with terrain shadows.

-Added terrain shadows: These depend on the unity shadows, if you see shimmering or artifacts turn up your shadow quality through the "render quality level" slider in KSP. The default shadow Cascades setting of 4 seems to work quite well. Shadows distance has also been changed from 5 000 to 100 000, this is adjustable in the scatterer config file.

-Added custom sunflare shader: WIP, configurable through custom textures and config file.

-Added eclipses: WIP, appear only on sky and orbit only for now, no terrain shadows. You can set eclipse casters through the planetsList file.

-Tweaked configs for a bunch of planet, ground to orbit transition is much better on Kerbin especially. Didn't have time to redo Duna so it probably loooks really bad.

-Fixed custom depth buffer artifacts (threshold of 10 is enough for all altitudes now). -Moved all render modes to the custom depth buffer.

-MapViewScale setting no longer required. -PostProcessing now has extinction like the sky shader. -PostProcessing blending mode changed from alpha blending to soft additive, basically it blends better and feelsless foggy during the day and more foggy at sunsets/sunrises.

-Sky extinction is now handled via analytic formula, this fixes the bug where sometimes extinction doesn't work with custom configs, beware that objects in the sky are still handled via the old method so this may not fix it.

-Fixed issue with gas giants giving abysmal fps

-Fixed rim exposure settings resulting in pixelated planet edges

-Fixed atmosphere drawing over planets in map view

-Fixed sunsets/sunrises looking like eclipses

-Sunglare hiding during eclipses

-Cleaner depth buffer and postprocessing in dx11 and opengl (edgeThreshold now obsolete)

-Main menu window for enabling and disabling features