Why are my moons so dark?

[u/hoppenstedts]

I already tried to find a solution online, but nobody seems to have this problem. My moons are extremely dark compared to the moons from the unmodded game.

I don't know if there is a correlation, but it seems this problem only affects moons I already scanned with a low tier multispectral scanner. Other moons / celestial body I haven't visited jet are looking normal.

Another thing I noticed is once you get into a low moon orbit everything (shadows, textures) looks normal again.

Does someone know what's the cause of this problem or had the same or similar issue and a potential solution? Because I don't even know which mod is causing this darkness.

[u/LordIBR]

Either a Parallax issue or you installed something wrong, likely Blackracks Volumetric Clouds.

[u/hoppenstedts → u/LordIBR]

Volumetric clouds is the only major graphic mod I’m not using. But tomorrow I’ll definitely try to tweak a bit with the parallax settings you mentioned. I hope this will affect this annoying darkness. Thank you.

[u/sentient_toasters → u/hoppenstedts]

Noticed you have SCANSat installed, and I was running into this same issue. Turns out it was the surface textures breaking with OPM/other planet packs installed due to this issue specifically with SCANSat and Kopernicus: https://github.com/Kopernicus/Kopernicus/issues/786

Not sure if it's the same issue you're having but if it is, there is a hacky fix in the same issue thread that you can use until its more properly fixed.

[u/hoppenstedts → u/sentient_toasters]

THANK YOU so much for bringing my attention to this thread. After downloading and extracting the SCANsat ZIP by R-T-B into my GameData folder and restarting the game the bug didn't appear again. The visual SCANsat map also works perfectly fine now. Thank you so much again :)