Autogen buildings missing in most of southwest Germany and north of Switzerland

IceManDBB · July 1, 2025, 4:35pm

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

Since 1.5.12.0 there are no more autogen buildings in most cities of southwest Germany and north of Switzerland.

Did you experience this issue before you joined the Beta?

no

ICAO, coordinates, or specific location:

see coordinates in screenshots below

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

no mods/addons

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

always

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

go to freeflight worldmap
zoom in to e.g. Singen on the westside of lake constance in Southwest Germany ( or any of the coordinates shown in the screenshots below)
there are no autogen buildings and only flat satellite image texture

YOUR SETTINGS

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

only fps graph to show coordinates

[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card. Please state your Graphics Card Driver Manufacturer (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD) and Version:

RTX 5080 with 576.40

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

win 10
9800X3D
64GB ram
2x 1TB M2 ssd

MEDIA

Found some border coordinates (green tik= has autogen, blue line= border, red cross= no autogen):
north border

west border (pretty obvious), the right side never got better

east border

south border

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IceManDBB · July 1, 2025, 5:05pm

I can get them to appear, when I disable photogrammetry, but the whole landscape looks differently then:

mappamundi · July 2, 2025, 6:53am

Can confirm it’s linked to having photogrammetry switched on. I wonder if it is related to this long standing issue? Zurich - Photogrammetry Buildings overlapped by procedural / autogen buildings. A botched attempt to fix it perhaps.

IceManDBB · July 2, 2025, 6:56am

Yes, this also happened in the city of Constance at the lake.

dustNinja7871 · July 3, 2025, 10:28am

Just noticed this flying around Pfullendorf. Its just a 2d ortho image of the city.

DoneDoubloon884 · July 3, 2025, 3:25pm

This is also the case with the missing houses in SU2. Here is my post about it: No buildings in the Lake Constance area

IceManDBB · July 3, 2025, 4:09pm

Then maybe it’s a serverside issue? I added a link to this thread to yours, so we have the connection.

IceManDBB · July 3, 2025, 4:17pm

Funnily enough, in Zürich, I still have autogen beneath the photgrammetry:

PathlessSpore60 · July 8, 2025, 6:32am

Can confirm, no autogen buildings in Bregenz, Austria.

llKickAs5ll · July 8, 2025, 11:20pm

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• yes

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• no auto gen buildings showing up whilst photogrammetry is enabled. Xbox series X

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DoneDoubloon884 · July 17, 2025, 3:29pm

Yes, in Zurich it only looks like it’s okay from a distance. When you get closer you can see how the buildings are mixed. There’s a PG section at the bottom and an autogenous house on top. I really hope that this will be repaired soon.

SmotheryVase665 · July 18, 2025, 1:37am

Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
Yes

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
Screenshots show the area in the vicinity of Lake Constance. These were taken in SU3 v1.5.17.0

There is no autogen along the flight path from Hilzingen Airfield (ED84) to the city of Winterthur , just past Winterthur Airport (LSPH).

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Just east of Hilzingen Airfield (ED84)

West of Hilzingen Airfield (ED84)

Edge of the autogen at Winterthur:

kbA7187 · July 19, 2025, 6:03am

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:
No Bildmessung/ships around Bodensee with WU VI.

[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 with Bildmessung on, with Bildmessung off, there are buildings etc..

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MEDIA

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IceManDBB · July 19, 2025, 8:50am

Issue still present in 1.5.18.0

SmotheryVase665 · July 19, 2025, 8:46pm

Hi @kbA7187
Can you provide a screenshot of what you are seeing wrong? An internet translation of “Bildmessung” into English gives “Image measurement”, which may be an incorrect translation and unfortunately does not help me understand the problem.

Is you problem anything similar to this one perhaps (just a guess):

Thanks!

kbA7187 · July 19, 2025, 11:35pm

Bildmessung = Photogrammetry or Autogen buildings etc are missing in the southwest of Germany. I didnt find this threads to this, so it seem to be already a known problem. But not bug logged, sad. Its Jörgs home area i thought

SmotheryVase665 · July 20, 2025, 12:53am

Thanks for the clarification! Quick question - are on the SU2 (release) build of 2024 or the SU3 Beta version?

Oilinga · July 20, 2025, 5:52am

Confirmed with MSFS 2024 Premium Deluxe (V1.5.17.0)) and region Friedrichshafen (EDNY) etc.

kbA7187 · July 20, 2025, 7:04am

Iam on SU 2 but i saw it also in the latest Beta SU 3

SmotheryVase665 · July 20, 2025, 5:40pm

Moved from Sim Update 3 Beta | MSFS 2024 > Scenery & Airports to Bug Reporting Hub > Scenery and Airports as @kbA7187 reports seeing the same issue in SU2 ^^above^^, so this issue does not appear to be a regression.

Title modified from “[Regression] Since 1.5.12.0 Autogen buildings missing in most of southwest Germany and north of Switzerland” to “Autogen buildings missing in most of southwest Germany and north of Switzerland”