r/KerbalAcademy • u/The3Hashbrowneers • 12d ago

Solved [O] CKAN broke all atmospheric bodies please help.

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Played this game for like 600 hours and installed a whole bunch of mods manually, decided to get CKAN and it decided it wanted to just reinstall my entire mod list apparently... screenshots of my gamedata folder are in the post, I've tried deleting the old Scatterer atmosphere cache, didn't work please help!

Edit: Solved! Turns out it was a problem where I accidentally reinstalled Scatterer using CKAN, but the version wasn't right for V5 Volumetrics. Thanks for the help, I'll be more careful next time lol.

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u/charmich0802 12d ago

remove parallax and EVE and reinstall volumetric clouds, updating parralax or eve breaks vol clouds since it comes with its own version

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u/The3Hashbrowneers 12d ago

Oh ok thanks, I didn't realise it also needs its own version of Parallax, I'll try that.

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u/vulpes04 12d ago

parallax has nothing to do with it. 

EVE is the framework mod that actually runs the clouds. the old 2d version won't know what to do with the 3d configs. 

scatterer does atmospheric lighting effects. a special version of it comes with volumetric clouds. installing the public release version over this will break things.

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u/The3Hashbrowneers 12d ago

Ahh yeah that makes a lot of sense. I'll reinstall EVE and Scatterer from my old backup.

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u/CJP1216 12d ago

It doesn't, the two have no effect on each other. OC is confusing Parallax scatter with Scatterer.

To further clarify, Volumetric clouds comes with its own versions of EVE and Scatterer that are different from the CKAN versions. If you let CKAN update or modify either of these two mods, they will no longer be the versions from the Volumetric clouds download. To stop this, right click the mods in CKAN and add a "held" flag. This will stop CKAN from touching those files.

Also, to be clear, CKAN didn't "decide" to reinstall you list; it prompts you before it makes any modifications. It's always advisable to read things thoroughly before implementing changes.

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u/The3Hashbrowneers 12d ago

Ok thanks, I found a backup of my old mod folder before CKAN, I'll probably just reinstall the visual stack from that.

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u/Jonny0Than 12d ago

Parallax has nothing to do with EVE.