Are you on Steam or Microsoft Store version?
Steam
Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?
No
Brief description of the issue:
Photoreal ground plate for Adelaide region has a clear red/pink tinge to the textures. Particularly evident on roading.
Location of issue:
Adelaide, South Australia
Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:
I complained of a similar problem when the update was released last week. No one else seemed to experience the same problem though. Glad I’m not alone but I hope Asobo can fix it.
Hah I had this too departing Adelaide this afternoon and I was sure that it was my new monitor of which I’m still finetuning the (colour) settings. Good to stumble acros this!
I can confirm the same problem. I lived in Adelaide as a kid and it definitely does not look like that IRL. The photogrammetry is a complete mess, but if you think that is bad try adding the Orbx Adelaide City Pack which then obliterates the city centre turning buildings into flattened desolate terrain and making it all a lurid blood red
Just wanted to add my 2c. I have visited Gold Coast, Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong, Hobart and Melbourne and found the photogrammetry at each location to be excellent. “Amazing” is what I typed in my flight notes for Melbourne.
I did Adelaide this morning and it looked awful with red tinge everywhere - especially in the shadows - very disappointing, a real immersion breaker.
Yep can confirm the bad red tint. Also seems to apply to impulse simulations adelaide scenery, so it seems like some kind of a washover effect… Any way, it looks terrible!
From what I understand the Satellite imagery from the Adelaide region is from a time in which the city was blanketed in Red Dust from a major dust storm.
I wouldn’t expect a resolve until new Bing Satellite Imagery is available at a guess unfortunately.
This proves once and for all that this is not from bad captures of the satellite imagery. It’s not even badly filtered bing imagery. The sim is applying this strong red tint during display because somebody has fat fingered a colour correction value for the area.
Can we please get this fixed? No new satellite images are needed, someone in Asobo’s scenery dept just needs to fix the local colour corrections. It started with SU7 when the photogrammetry was added.
Thanks for checking Adelaide too, I’ve used this option in many other photogrammetry cities and it is very effective at removing the red/brown tint, which many times clashes badly with the overly green tint of the standard satellite imagery (Naples for example). Hopefully the general colour correction is something FS2024 will improve.
To be clear for anyone on PC reading the thread, you can use the workaround I posted above to turn off TIN colour correction which temporarily solves the issue. The setting is retained until you restart the sim. As long as you exit/disable dev mode and then start a new flight your flight will still be counted in the log book but the colours will be good.
@RagingWombat839 … you are a champion! The fix for the Kangaroo Island “spike” and the TIN change for the “red wash” have made flying into / out of Adelaide in MSFS a much better experience! It was horrible before, and being an ex-Adelaide boy, I still fly YPAD a lot as I like flying to my hometown. Thanks again!
O>>M>>G!! you are a hero sir!! good lord! i thought i was loosing my mind!. The problem is not just adelaide. ALL photogrammetry areas have that red oxide color, all over the world. Some more, some less, but they are all red. Some of them look like a nuclear bomb just went off. Non PG areas look crazy green and PG areas look red. This takes care of the worst of it, it still looks a bit red, but it is way, way better. THANK YOU. Any thoughts on how to leave it set “in eternum” so as not need to set it every time i play?
Sorry I haven’t found a way to persist or mod the setting. It’s annoying when I fly into YPAD and realise as I descend that I forgot to do the colour correction dance before my flight.
