Context: 2020 package with vegetation polygons placed in 2024 community folder
Similar MSFS 2020 issue: not present on 2020
Bug description: Vegetation polygons are not nearly as populated with trees as they are in 2020. In fact, they are almost empty. This leads to it looking as if there was nothing there and you can just see the blank aerial image. In addition to that, trees placed with a vegetation polygon are not fixed to the ground like the auto generated ones are. In some occasion they even appear as if they are underground.
Repro steps: Create a vegetation polygon with full vegetation density in 2020 and look at it in 24
Attachments: Here are example pictures of the density difference in 2020 and 2024. Additionally, please find attached a video demonstrating the placement issue
As you can see same problem on all settings. Way less dense than the autogenerated trees and also way too small. In 2020 they are roughly the same height.
To make this more “bulletproof”, I would suggest to spawn normal trees not only when no “TIN blob” is detected, but just in general when there is a defined Vegetation polygon by a community folder package. All of the instances here where there are moving trees are trees defined by a vegetation polygon. I am pretty certain that whenever someone puts a veg polygon there, the fixed trees are preferred.
I understand that this is obviously not top priority for you. But please keep in mind that this can cause a lot of issues for the appearance of third party airports (as seen in this example) And this goes not only for our projects in particular.
Whilst I understand this is probably not something that will make SU2, I would appreciate a fix for this rather sooner than later.
@Boris Btw, could this also explain why the vegetation polygon tree density is so low in TIN areas? Because the engine thinks not as many individual trees are needed to hide the blobs?
I sent a comparison in private content a while ago and we came to the conclusion that veg polies in non TIN areas look roughly the same as they do in 2020. But in TIN areas they no only move but are also way smaller + not nearly as dense.
