v0.1.5.0 Patch Notes

• 🚀 Fixed: Orbital decay fix causes vessels to travel sideways above Eeloo at certain altitudes
  
  
• 🚀 Fixed: EVA Kerbals are unable to move along vessels via magboots or ladders while in Orbit
  
  
• 🚀 Fixed: Loading screen soft locks after a revert to launch while game is paused
  
  
• 🚀 Fixed: A.I.R.B.R.A.K.E.S. mirror symmetry clones deploy backwards
  
  
• 🚀 Fixed: Fairings fly towards celestial bodies after being jettisoned
  
  
• 🚀 Fixed: Vessel focus behavior is wrong when using stack separators
  
  
• 🚀 Fixed: Kerbals in non-launch assemblies are lost when launching the vessel
  
  
• Implemented conic section highlighting when cursor hovers over trajectories in Map view
  
• Fixed: Discarded stage's orbit changes when timewarping with acceleration
  
• Fixed: Joints break when decoupling parts on vessels with physicsless parts
  
• Fixed: EC drains at the rate used by active reaction wheel even after torque is disabled and no actual torque is being applied
  
• Fixed: Vessel stage deploys after the Go button is pressed while time warp is above 1x and then dropped down to 1x
  
• Fixed: LV-99 XL gear sometimes hover above runway upon landing
  
• Fixed: Celestial body trajectories are a solid color when viewed in the Map or Tracking Station
  
• Fixed: Light tree shows all green lights earlier than intended on maneuver burn timer
  
• Fixed: Decoupled stage without probe core/pod is controllable
  

• Optimized CPU use for cloud rendering
  
• Optimized MessageCenter to improve performance in flight scene
  
• Improved GPU performance at KSC by rendering KSC ground during terrain prepass
  
• Improved CommandBuffer performance by delaying execution until end of frame, avoiding unnecessary UpdateRenderBounds work
  
• Fixed: Drastic loss of performance during a specific time of day in Kerbin's atmosphere
  
• Fixed: Vessel splashed-down behavior causes performance to drop
  
• Fixed: Water and cloud render textures cause memory leak
  
• Fixed: Stranded references in the Simulation Update code
  
• Fixed: ParametricLineGenerator leaks memory
  
• Fixed: Memory leaks from VegatationSystem
  
• Removed unnecessary code when returning to main menu
  
• Removed unnecessary calls in SetOceanMaterial code
  
• Removed unnecessary planet textures to reduce GPU memory
  
• Removed unnecessary calls in GetLiftVector code
  
• Reduced memory usage on water rendering
  
• Reduced unnecessary calls in the IVAPortraits code
  

• Fixed: Unable to launch a vessel under the Workspaces folder from the Launchpad menu at KSC
  

• Added gridfin parts GRFN-125 and GRFN-250
  
  
• 🚀 Fixed: Extended engine bells load from save in wrong state for Cornet, Trumpet and Tuba engines
  
  
• Updated mesh generation code for fairings
  
• Fixed: LY-60 and LY-90 landing legs wheels are misaligned or flipped when extended
  
• Fixed: Separating any part from ST-Micro-1 truss causes all remaining child joints connected to any other ST-Micro-1 truss on the active vessel to break
  
• Fixed: Docking ports cannot always be targeted
  
• Fixed: LT-1 landing leg does not align to the ground when extended
  
• Fixed: Ground parts under compression fully extend during timewarp in game
  
• Fixed: Antenna ranges for fixed antennas not calculated correctly
  
• Fixed: Rover wheels lose steering at low velocity
  
• Fixed: Drag system errors when loading a vessel in atmospheric flight
  

• 🚀 Fixed: Part Tooltip Info in the VAB shrinks or enlarges until it disappears on cursor hover
  
  
• Updated UI for Kerbal Manager
  
• Updated Part Manager UI style
  

• 🚀 Fixed: Max Impact statistic shows twice in part info tooltip
  
  
• Reenabled ALT to disable stack attach
  
• Increased timeout for Fairing and Wing edit icons
  
• Fixed: A.I.R.B.R.A.K.E.S do not open when selecting Deploy in the parts manager in the VAB
  
• Fixed: Vessels with changed assembly roots cause failure of surface attached parts, as well as broken save behavior
  
• Fixed: Triangle panels placed with mirror symmetry are not oriented correctly
  
• Fixed: The RA-15 antenna appears inverted when placed in mirror symmetry mode on a vessel in the VAB
  
• Fixed: The DTS-M1 antenna is not oriented correctly when placed in mirror symmetry mode on a vessel in the VAB
  
• Fixed: The Pegasus 1 ladder appears inverted when placed in mirror symmetry mode on a vessel in the VAB
  
• Fixed: The Communotron 16-S antenna appears inverted when placed in mirror symmetry mode on a vessel in the VAB
  

• Cloud lighting and shading improvements
  
  
  • Application of atmosphere transmittance to cloud lighting
    
  • Unification of ambient light calculation for ray-marched, baked, and scaled clouds
    
  • Recalculation of average position for clouds to accommodate density
    
  • Updating scattering to use average/weighted position estimated from density samples
    
  • Moving some code into functions, and separating cloud shadows out of scaled cloud shader and into a new shader that renders below the atmosphere
• 🚀 Fixed: Lighting is not consistent from all camera angles when viewing the surface near the poles of several celestial bodies
  
  
• 🚀 Fixed: Lighting is inconsistent at Laythe’s north pole
  
  
• 🚀 Fixed: Lighting is inconsistent at Vall’s north pole
• Changed lighting at sunsets by using atmospheric scattering to soften lighting - sunsets are now realistically red on Kerbin, blue on Duna, etc.
  
• Improved atmospheric scattering integration on terrain and clouds to make atmospheres softer and horizons smoother
  
• Improved cloud blending with the atmosphere
  
• Implementation of biome and triplanar mesh bucketing for terrain rendering
  
• Optimized cloud shadows
  
• Adjusted dynamic resolution calculation for clouds
  
• Increased Eve's atmosphere scatter height
  
• Fixed: Wrong scale on KSC light colliders creating log spam
  
• Fixed: Decals not visible at higher altitudes above Eeloo
  
• Fixed: Water is invisible when landing at a specific location on the surface of Eve
  
• Fixed: Bop's polar crater appears distorted in map and tracking station
  
• Fixed: Terrain spikes at Bop's south pole
  
• Fixed: seen from orbit, Jool's surface disappears while medium quality clouds are enabled
  

• Fixed: Attaching a decoupler that creates a fairing too close to the MK1 Command Pod which prevents Kerbals from exiting vessel
  
• Improved self shadowing on Kerbal skin materials
  
• Improved smoothness of the blink animation
  

• Adjusted Logitech Lighting FX when vehicle crashes
  
• Adjusted Logitech Lighting colors when reaching some celestial bodies
  
• Fixed: Wingtip vortices jump when entering celestial frame of reference
  
• Fixed: Incorrect key colors during docking control for Logitech Lighting FX
  
• Fixed: Booster engine VFX spawn to the side when flying past ~21.5k altitude on Kerbin
  

• Fixed: Reverting after using the Tutorial Menu to return to flight causes soft lock
  

• Text updated for antialiasing options in Settings
  

• Upgraded Unity to version 2022.3.5f1
  
  

: This is due to a recently identified problem with control surfaces and how they interact with SAS. SAS is intended to work with Gridfins in the future, but for now they are manual control only.

: We are aware of issue and are investigating.

: This is new to v0.1.5.0, and we are investigating.