When comparing Texture Replacer vs ScanSat, the Slant community recommends ScanSat for most people. In the question“What are the best Kerbal Space Program mods?” ScanSat is ranked 6th while Texture Replacer is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose ScanSat is:
You can create detailed maps of every planet.
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Pros
Pro Let's you change textures
Lets you change textures for Kerbals to make them more realistic or just funner.
Pro Diversifies your Kerbals
No longer do your crew only have 2 possible appearances!
Pro Create maps
You can create detailed maps of every planet.
Pro Helps with landing the spacecraft
You can use ScanSat to determine the slope of the surface you're landing on and avoid hills and other obstacles.
Pro Much better than the stock scanning system.
The stock resource scanning feature finishes instantly, while ScanSat functions over a long period of time and the orbits you're in, like scanning satellites do IRL.
Pro Science boost
Provides a little extra science to help you in your career and science mode games- but you'll have to work for it!
Cons
Con Some bugs and issues installing textures
Sometimes it bugs and the textures are a bit hard to install.
Con Some users experience performance losses
This is only true when the window is open, it shouldn't affect the rest of the game.