Black Rooftops on lower LOD houses

I’ve got a problem where the lower LOD houses have very black rooftops, as if they’re missing the correct colour texture, or as if it thinks they’re fully shaded by the rooftop part of the model which isn’t actually there yet (that bit only appears when you get close).

When you get closer and the higher LOD versions blend in, the colour is correct (much lighter).

So the black rooftops stand out like a sore thumb, but then it stands out even more when you see the higher LOD models load with the correct rooftop colours. It seems that one is the correct colour (closer model) and one is not (further model) and there is a stark difference between the two.

This is happening everywhere I go in the UK.

I’ve attached a pic to show the problem. You can see many of the houses are coloured correctly, but many are not.

Is anyone else noticing this?

Here’s a zoomed in pic to clearly show the problem…

I know this was first raised in 2020 but I haven’t seen any solution yet. When I’m flying in VR I often notice that some roof tops appear black but then change back to normal as I fly over them.

So in true sim fashion “all of sudden” I have this issue. If I fly closer to the buildings the correct texture appears which is really odd but this is what I see at altitude. I’m just North of Manchester here near Horwich. Oddly I turn the spitfire for a run in Australia yesterday and didn’t see this issue. I am running the ORBX GB Central addon but never had this before.

Is this is sim issue?


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I think they should’ve kept the “3rd party mods” and “marketplace content” sections for these type of issues.

So it seems changing my building setting to HIGH instead of Medium resolved this. Not sure why because I’ve used Medium all along. SU9 issue?

So placebo or this issue has “come back” - even with buildings set to High I still see black textures on roofs? Any idea?