Last year we started working on a new scenery to compliment our Dash 7 aircraft, a small airfield in Canada’s Northwest Territories called Prairie Creek (CBH4).
After assembling some basic aerial imagery, I took some WIP screenshots in May 2024 for our FB page and the FS Convention in Las Vegas:
The above screenshots show the default vegetation for this area at the time.
Resuming work on the scenery I was in for a nasty surprise, all the regional conifer trees are now gone and have been replaced by vegetation that’s totally incorrect for this region:
How is it possible that such a grave issue now exists for both MSFS 2020 and MSFS 2024, with totally incorrect vegetation being depicted for this particular area?
Thank you Sasa, I had seen that too and to me that seemed like it was listing Biome/EcoRegion mismatches from the outset, and not actual regressions or corruptions as I’ve now experienced in MSFS 2020.
The curious thing here is that this Prairie Creek area had perfectly working Biome vegetation last year, that matched the real life EcoRegion definition. Now, several months later, we have vegetation that is a total mismatch, and this mismatch seems to have crept into MSFS 2024 too.
In German we call this - verschlimmbessern - releasing updates and patches that actually make things worse instead of giving improvements.
Your link points to a report from early December 2024 for MSFS 2024. I’m not sure I understand why such a serious issue has not been addressed and fixed almost 4 months later now?
@EPellissier@FlyingRaccoon are you aware of this very serious issue, is there anything being done to provide us with a timely fix or patch to remedy this?
I don’t have information on this issue and I don’t think Sylvain has either since this is not directly related to the SDK itself. It might be better to ask about this in the official forums.
It’s looking like the fault might not specifically rest with Asobo for CBH4. The Biome assigned by EcoRegions2017 is Tundra for the Ogilvie-MacKenzie Alpine Tundra. It should probably be Boreal Forests/Taiga. Asobo just uses the default Ecoregions for the most part. You could try to mark this as a bug in the data of the sim, but I don’t think it would get changed.
Using a huge polygon to change this is possible, but I find the Layer will need a layer number of 1 to display properly, and that might cause layering problems(?)
It can be fixed with a polygon the size of the ecoregion (derived from the official shapefiles). I’m not sure this really helps the OP, as he might not want to make such a file.
I fail to see why the official source lists this as tundra. Why would there be tundra in such a mountainous area? That said, the fault is not primarily with Asobo, or whoever assigned that region for them.
