Overgrown Runway Grass

Version: 1.0.72.0

Frequency: Consistently

Severity: Blocker

Context: Emerald Scenery Design - 67FL Bald Eagle Airfield- Myakka Head

This issue is present in both the 2020 package brought into 2024, as well as with a 2024 native build.

The grass on the runway is extremely tall with ferns/shrubs mixed in here and there. The package uses an invisible grass apron overlay (default - grass07) for the entire airport to shorten the grass in 2020. There is also an additional custom overlay on the runway itself giving it a stripe pattern. This is also flagged as a grass material. The opacity of this layer is lowered a bit.

Under the grass aprons, there is also a custom CGL aerial.

I have tried making adjustments to the aprons in a 2024 native package and nothing seems to affect the grass or shrubs spawned on the runway. Not even color, as it did in 2020.

If you hop over the trees just to the Southwest of the main runway, you will find another dirt runway. You can also see here that it is really overgrown with grass. In 2020 this runway is mostly dirt/sand with very sparse grass.

The grass also seems to be ignoring other aprons of dirt/sand type as well.

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I would love to see an option to remove the flowers from grass runways.

Edit – As ANNOV stated in another post. Changing biome to desert will remove flowers from runway/aprons. Good to know.

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Up for this, still no news?

Flowers are gorgeous, but really difficult to see them in grass runways.
And of course the grass shouldn’t be taller than 5/10 centimetres (grass runways are constantly mow!)

Hello @mamuDesign

This is being worked on but I don’t have a testable fix yet so no ETA unfortunately.

Regards,
Sylvain

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We are really struggling with making accurate grass airfields in msfs2024 due to the inability to have properly trimmed short neat grass.

Hopefully its still being looked into. Many people would be very appreciative if this ever makes it in sim!

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