Custom CGL orthophoto & aprons for regions not covered by Bing Maps working incorrectly

Version: 1.0.84.0

Frequency: Consistently

Severity: Blocker

Marketplace package name: Any of the French Airbases released by Miltech Simulations

Bug description: On regions where bing maps is not available (censored or for whatever reason not available - eg. Northern Canada, areas of Greenland, airports and airbases in some countries), custom CGLs look incredibly blurry, as if a much lower resolution satellite image is taking priority over the CGL. For example, we have high quality custom CGLs for these two airports in France, which are not covered by Bing. The custom CGL covers the entire perimeter around the airport, but as you may see from the screenshots, the result is a blurry mess. This does not occur in FS2020 - the censored area would be covered by landclass and the custom CGL will render above.


Ground polygons/aprons/projected meshes are also affected, not rendering correctly and not being priorized above the bing aerials.


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I also have the same issue.


Might be they required or forced to apply the ‘Censorship’ to those areas.

This could be easily executed by applying a landclass instead of blurring it all, including aprons, as it has been done in FS20.

This also occurs in “non-censored areas”, but areas with lack of good coverage of satellite imagery, such as some islands in the pacific, northern Canada, Greenland, etc.

So still waiting for an official reply as it seems to be a bug!

It all seems to indicate custom CGL will render at the resolution set by Bing. If the source Bing imagery is low res, and higher res custom CGL is added to the simulator, the rendering resolution will continue be set to whatever the source Bing imagery is.

This therefore will affect any area where Bing coverage is limited or lowres.

I would like to ask if there is any new progress in this thread. Some of my packages have encountered the same issue.

Whether I use the 2020 package or compile with 2024, it will lead to the same result.

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