1.10

1.10 Official release
Released		7/1/2020
Steam		Steam Community
← 1.9.1 1.10.1 →
⇐ 1.91.11 ⇒

Version 1.10 named Shared Horizons with ESA, is a major free update that released on July 1st, 2020.

Changes

Improvements

• Added the ability to fine tune fairings or use the existing, snap mode. This behavior reacts to the editor's angle snap.
• Added ESA missions tutorial.
• Adjusted the Remove Row button in KAL to only delete the row when clicking on the red cross, not the whole segment.
• Fuel cells can be set started in the VAB or SPH for launch.
• Drag cube debug information now available in VAB/SPH when show aero data in PAW debug option is on.
• Improve drag cube system to handle Part Variants and Shrouds on the same part.
• Add additional drag cube information to Debug Aero info in PAWs.
• Persist Aero GUI UI debug window setting and Debug Aero info in PAWs setting between game sessions.
• Performance improvements for engine module.
• Performance and memory improvements for launching a vessel from the space centre.
• Performance and memory improvements for part action windows by caching them.
• Performance and memory improvements for reading and writing config nodes, so better performance for loading and saving.
• Performance and memory improvements for undo and redo in VAB/SPH by caching stage manager icons.
• Intended duplicated group-actions have a marker to distinguish the part side .
• Converter actions now indicate resource type to differentiate them.
• Performance and memory improvements for loading vessels.
• Preview and select suits for Kerbals via the suit selector icon (coat hanger).
• Performance and Memory improvements for game, craft and mission load dialogues.
• Performance and Memory improvements for vessel loading.
• Performance and Memory improvements for ModuleJettison in VAB/SPH.
• The KSC's grass now changes according to the currently set terrain shader quality.
• Revamped Jool, giving it a new animated shader and high resolution textures.
• Laythe planet textures revamp. Low, medium and high quality terrain shaders.
• ESA Collaboration missions implemented for base game.
• Added EVA button to the crew transfer dialog. Functions the same as the crew hatch dialog EVA button.
• Added the ability to have open-ended/uncapped fairings.
• Sliders now display units in the Part Action Window where appropriate.
• Optimized fairing mesh construction and exploded view heuristic by caching mouse position.
• Reduced GC and unnecessary calculations performed for variants on fairings.
• Reduced number of meshes and colliders for fairings to improve draw calls and standarize at 24-32 sides.
• Added Marquee scrolling to a few PAW items for when the text is super long. Text is ellipsis in this case and on mouse over will move left then right.
• Performance improvements in flight mode by caching variables in ThermalIntegrationPass and PartBuoyancy.
• Hide UI elements that aren't being used and avoid unnecessary updates in flight mode.
• Performance and memory improvements for DeltaV simulations.
• Speed up craft loading and use less memory in VAB/SPH.
• The PAW starts towards the outside of the screen instead of over the center of the rocket/screen.
• The camera will not position itself at an appropriate distance when switching vessels to prevent the camera starting inside vessels.
• KSP now has Comets!
• Added two new contracts for comets.
• Added surface sample science experiment for comets.
• Comets can explode into smaller fragments while entering a CB's atmosphere.
• Fairings can now be set to not auto-expand in SPH/VAB via a new PAW option.
• Improve performance of splash FX in water by using combination aof close splashes and limiting how many occur in close proximity
• Adjusted the "dark" them color to be more visible in the variant selector.

Localization

• Changed Japanese translation of "Polar Crater" based on community feedback.
• Stock vessel name and description translations.
• Fix science done at Dessert not showing localized name.
• Fix Service Module parts displaying unlocalized text for Shroud.
• Fix Command parts displaying unlocalized text for Cutaway.
• Fixed a localization issue on the Strategies occurring on FR, IT and PT
• Fix unlocalized label for facility level during missions.
• Fix grammar issue in From the Moon tutorial.
• Updated SC-9001 Science Jr. perform science button so it now matches the new part name.
• Fixes translation error in FTE-1 part in Japanese.
• Fix missing character in KSP Merchandise link in main menu in simplified Chinese.
• Improved phrasing for landing label in Russian.
• Fix localized string when debugging aero details.
• Fix localization issues with tab headings in Tracking Station.
• Fix KSPedia - Numbers on Resources/Conversion Management page alignment in Russian and Chinese.
• Fix KSPedia 'app launcher' text box on the Manual/Flight Interface page alignment in Portuguese.
• Fix KSPedia text on Rocketry/Basics/Centered page spacing in Japanese.
• Fix KSPedia text on Manual/Management page spacing in Portuguese.
• Fix KSPedia unlocalized text for measurements is displayed in the 'Effective Range Table'.
• Fix KSPedia Japanese Incorrect break line in Control.
• Fix numerous part description texts.
• Fix a couple of messages in tutorials.
• Fix action sets override explanation tooltip text.
• Fix Localization of Vessel Naming Group and vessel name in PAWs.
• Removed line breaks in the Orbit's Ejection field tooltip in English.

Parts

• Add fuel line ESA variant.
• Add Thoroughbred ESA variant.
• Added Rockomax X200-32 ESA variant.
• Revamped R-11 'Baguette' External Tank and added silver variant.
• Revamped R-4 'Dumpling' External Tank and added silver variant.
• Revamped R-12 'Doughnut' External Tank and added silver variant.
• Added new variants to the fairings size 1, 2 and 3. Now we have them in white, black and white, orange, silver and gold.
• Revamped Struts and added white variant.
• New Moho Planetary Observer (MPO) Probe.
• New Moho Transfer Module (MTM).
• Fix Mainsail's Center Of Thrust.
• Fix LV-N engine FX particle offset.
• Added the ESA variant to the Rockomax X200-16 Fuel Tank.
• New Flag parts, these new parts can be placed on fairings by holding the Mod key or by setting the Fairing Expansion = Off setting in the fairings PAW.
• Parts with Flag Decals on them can now have their decal set to mirrored.
• New Magnetometer Boom science experiment.
• Advanced Grabbing Unit textures revamped and added a Dark variant.
• New Advanced Grabbing Unit Jr. With 2 variants
• Fix for LV-N engine not stacking correctly at the bottom.
• Added a white and yellow variant to all TD decouplers and TS separators.

Bug fixes

• Fix Action Groups app position.
• Fix mesh scale on short compoundparts causing reentry FX issues.
• Fixed Interstage fairings holding onto the payload in certain use cases.
• Fix dV calcs for stages drawing resources across decouplers with crossfeed enabled.
• Fix unable to timewarp after using Set Position and then Set Orbit cheat.
• Fix autostrut being incorrectly reset on parts attached to dynamic nodes if the part is the parent.
• Fix drag cubes on J-90 Goliath, 48-7S Spark, LV-909 Terrier, RE-M3 Mainsail, RE-L10 Poodle RE-I5 Skipper, and numerous other parts.
• Fix craft browser selecting wrong tab when player switches between VAB/SPH.
• Fix the highlight and navigation colors not being set on game start when the settings file did not exist.
• Fixed a bug that stopped the player from progressing in the Basic Science Tutorial.
• Fix Action Groups app header in flight.
• Fix Lights toggle image not showing all rays properly in Altimiter UI.
• Fix comm link not displaying correct strength when focusing on a relay satellite.
• Fix node icons being rendered on top of other Flight scene UI elements.
• Fix broken off solar panels, fairings and shroud parts left on the surface causing vessels to remain in landed state after they take off.
• Fix Dont Show Again not working for Delete all Messages functionality.
• Fix LV-T45 config by removing duplicate definition of testmodule.
• Fixed veteran kerbals dissappearing when being dismissed.
• Fix Navball render issue when Maneuver mode is enabled.
• Fix resources not being displayed in tracking station in Prospecting Eeloo Scenario.
• Fix asteroids having incorrect mass when docking.
• Fix bug causing kerbals to not respawn in Space Center.
• Fix bug causing difficulty settings to revert when reverting flight.
• Fix maneuver node label not showing when switching selected node.
• Fix an issue where Maneuver Mode's Maneuver Editor's Gizmos can enlarge or shrink when clicked extremely fast.
• Fix 3.75m decoupler and separator drag cubes creating too much drag.
• Fix issue where some vessels were not being reset to the terrain when loading them in a save game where the game terrain detail settings had been changed since it was last saved.
• Fix a different tone of white in the white fairing variant.
• Fix Launch platform selector getting stuck when opening dialogs while it is already open.
• Fix Portrait Gallery when EVAing and all gallery pictures have been hidden.
• Fix lighting on specular shaded part icons.
• Fix 3D object masking in Editor and RnD scenes for Windows platform and openGL forced.
• Pinned PAW stays open in the editor on click events and on part selection.
• Add some clarity in the strategies that have no-duration (Bail-out and Sell-out) so players dont expect them to remain active over time.
• Fix Z-100 battery light showing white in toolbar and tooltip icons sometimes.
• Fix fuel overlay becoming offset when dragging the root part by hiding the overlay during that drag.
• Remove Jettison event for Jettison parts that are fairings as they cannot be jettisoned manually.
• Fix hitching in the main menu.
• Fix visual artefacts of atmosphere planets in map view at high timewarp rates.
• Interior lights of ship cockpits and passenger modules are linked to the toggle lights action group.
• Fixed bug causing empty stages not to be deleted.
• Fix label overlap that was happening in some languages.
• Part Action Windows will always close when its part is destroyed.
• Fixed bug where drain valve values were being defaulted to true.
• Fixed bug which caused some building lights to remain on during the day.
• Fix camera out of frustum error when reloading flight scene in some scenarios.
• Fix inertial tensor errors when reloading flight scene in some scenarios.
• Fix log messages when running missions with test experiment node and node is set to any experiment.
• Maneuver mode UI negative handles don't flip functionality anymore after adjusting the tool sensitivity.
• Docking Port Actions now fire docking ports on same vessel.
• The technology path lines don't disappear anymore.
• Fix tutorial 'orbit 101' getting stuck when trying to get to the inclination value of 10 degrees.
• Correctly handle engines burning across stages for dV calcs.
• Fix decoupler handling when no parts attached to decoupler for dV calcs.
• Fix stage UI dV display fluctuating up and down whilst burning engines.
• Fixed NRE when changing the variant of a surface-attached LV-1 'Ant'.
• Fix not copying resource amounts when copying parts in VAB/SPH.
• Fix contract part naming to use real part names and not 'research lab' or 'materials bay'.
• Fix for some keybindings activating when typing in toolbox part search in VAB/SPH.
• Fix camera shake issues in the SPH when using shift and hovering over UI elements.
• Fixed disappearing mode toggle button in KerbNet dialog.
• Fix for Shadow Projection Settings resetting.
• Fix PAW group headers being cut off in some languages.
• Fixed an issue where the UT field in Precision Maneuver Editor wasn't able to display Universal Time in the 'y
• Fix 'Cannot deploy while stowed.' bug for service bays.
• Fix manuever node handles changing value incorrectly when dragging 'anti' handles.
• Fix randomization error in Sentinel causing short lifetimes of discovered asteroids.
• Fix Exception storm when inflatable heat shield destroyed by overheat in some situations.
• Fix incorrect Line Break - Tracking Station - The string 'Last seen
• PAW title now matches the new name of an asteroid after being renamed.
• Maneuver node no longer moves along the planned trajectory instead of the current one when moving it ahead in time using the Maneuver Mode UI input field.
• Fix crew assignment being blocked after loading second ship.
• Fix the vesselSituation on unloaded space objects being Flying instead of Orbiting.
• Fix flickering Celestial body self-shadow issues with DX11 platform.
• Fix icons in map view not rescaling properly when UI scale changes.
• Fix the EVA 'Board' button prompt not disappearing when the target vessel is destroyed.
• Fix unlocalized label for mk1-3 pod lights.
• Fixed the Island runway textures.
• Fix camera behavior when camera mode is activated multiple times in flight mode.
• Fix loading of Modders KSPedia slides.
• Fix beginner tutorials being locked out after pressing Save or Load game buttons.
• Fix NRE flood when creating or selecting a maneuver node with the Maneuver Mode UI Intercept tab open.
• Fix Set Orbit cheat to allow rendezvous with vessels in an escaping sphere of influence situation.
• Fairing panels now display the proper texture you see in the editor instead of pure white.
• Fix incorrect drag cube and class size on Asteroids after they have been grappled and subsequently ungrappled or reloaded via scene change or save game load.

Mods

• Add IPartMassModifier to ModuleJettison. Allows mods to implement mass change on jettison.
• Fix application of mass to resource ratios in ModuleResourceConverter recipes.
• Renamed a duplicated shader "KSP/Particles/Alpha Blended" to now have one named that and another named "KSP/Particles/Alpha Blended Scenery".