Agricultural Mission / Barren farmlands everywhere

momos1989 · January 30, 2025, 9:49am

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

Agricultural missions take place on 98% barren farmlands. There are no plants or seedlings. The AI selects empty, dry lands for spraying.

In the MSFS 2024 demo video, we saw the spraying of sunflower fields and rapeseed fields. There is no trace of this in the released simulator. Please fix the error. I would like to spray areas covered with rich vegetation.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

every time

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

no

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

dx12

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

rtx4080

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pvaiko1203 · July 11, 2025, 10:58am

I’m on SU3 now, and fields aren’t barren anymore, but what I see is much worse than that.

Not sure if this is because it is summer now on the northern hemisphere, or they changed something in SU3, but I have now crops on fields rendered in 100 or so meters circle around the aircraft, outside of that just the ground texture.

It is terribly immersion breaking seeing plants popping up in front of you as you fly over the field. The rendering distance appears to change with the Grass setting, but even on high it is very close to the aircraft. Unfortunately, the only way I found to remove them was to turn off the grass but that turns it off everywhere, not just on fields.

In its current form, I would not want the plants there anyway since the generated crop is random, there are no rows that you could use as a visual reference (the ground texture often has these rows). Also, currently there is no way to use addons like https://flightsim.to/file/89968/agriculture-sat-nav-and-light-bar in missions, that would help so one is left with the EFB and practically instrument flying to figure out coverage (plus you have the ■■■■■■ woman on the ground, giving you unsolicited advice, how realistic…)