Brown, Bleached, Miscolored-patches in Secondary Aerial Imagery CGLs

[rhumbaflappy]

Here’s some links:

Ground color looks bleach white in MSFS 2024 compared to MSFS 2020, Bing Maps and real life

Version: 1.4.14 Frequency: Consistently Severity: High The ground color in many places looks almost completely white in many places where it should be brown or gray. The same grass/gravel strips that look natural in MSFS 2020 looks unnaturally white in MSFS 2024. For example, the screenshots below were taken in Westport, ON. Marketplace package name: CRL2 Westport/Rideau-Lakes Airport Context: This is not an issue with the package, the ground coloration is much too white in the surrounding …

Custom CGL wont override default Bing data

Hello, I created a custom aerial for my scenery. However it wont show up in the sim. What I think is the cause - over my area (LKSZ) there was clearly a cloud, so MS decided to use some generic texture to cover it. And I cant override this with my package. Running latest SU2 beta. Even when I open the package reorder tool, my scenery is not listed. In FS2020 it works as it should. FS2020 [Microsoft Flight Simulator Screenshot 2025.04.15 - 09.32.26.92] FS2024 [Microsoft Flight Simulator 202…

Fake brown fields

Any update on when we might be able to control / hide these “Color Correction” brown areas using Polygons or anything in the SDK? They are much less intrusive in the latest versions, but they are still there. I’m currently working on EGSV and have a large patch of brown covering my custom CGL adjacent to the runway. Brown “Color Correction”, with zoomed out World Map view showing it disappears at distance: [image]

These issues are all related. Here’s the culprit:

This wasn’t used in MSFS 2020, but it is used in MSFS 2024. This “texture” overrides secondary CGL images, and can only be altered by aprons or polygons with transparency. The compiled CGLs are fine. It’s the sim-added textures that mess up your beautiful secondary images. What we need is a means to disable these awful GameRender albedo Textures.

[Nettework]

For the issue I reported (white ground colouring) I actually have a transparent apron with a grassground texture set to 0 alpha (fully transparent) covering the runway area, so it should have removed this issue if that was the case?

[rhumbaflappy]

This is the problem. The Game Render Albedo, created by the sim, overrides the created aerial imagery. This doesn’t happen in MSFS 2020. I’m guessing this is created to account for default vegetation and perhaps seasonal and hourly changes?

The end result is we have only marginal control over secondary ground display. And it’s a mystery as to how the display will render. And it’s not just the over-exposed white coloring. It is also the unwanted brown fields, and perhaps other anomalies. There’s no magic polygon or apron material to exclude or control the GameRender texture.

[Fiideell]

Any news on this? I am experiencing the same issue. In my are there was a cloud and it was cured by some generic textures. However when I am trying to create custom CGL I am unable to overwrite it completly. There is still some default brown part over my CGL. Have a look.

[morganthomas757]

Bumping this thread. Any update on this issue? Just created an aerial image for the airport I’m working on, and the very green satellite image which is the intended output is being interfered with by the brown/dull colouration.

[rhumbaflappy]

https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/t/fake-brown-fields/10321/17

Near the bottom of the thread, I posted a probable solution. It concerns making a colored polygon of an acceptable ground type, and controlling the transparency. You might be able to make a new transparent material of the right type for the polygon.

[morganthomas757]

Hey,

Ironically I spotted your thread not long after posting my message in this one. Setting a Polygon with the material Runway Grass on the discoloured areas (compared to the intended colour) helps the proper colour to come through, and also ensures there is grass generated within the polygon. Many thanks for your suggestion!

[Gobby]

I can confirm @rhumbaflappy suggestion works well.
It’s worth noting that this method overrides any apron/ground type in the area its placed. So if you’ve lots of brown areas to remove, you have to be very specific with the polygons. If you place a polygon over your whole airport, the grass will be everywhere regardless of which priority settings you use.