[BUG LOGGED] Blocky cloud reflections in absence of wind

MrFuzzy1337 · June 17, 2021, 7:42am

Moderator Edit: Merged from another topic.

Asobo, if you don’t want to implement ray tracing please give us at least decent screen space reflections. The current cloud reflections on water when wind is calm or 2-3 knots are horrible (at Ultra settings).

Do you have any add-ons in your Community folder? If yes, please remove and retest before posting. No

Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it? No

Brief description of the issue: Especially when the wind is calm, cloud reflections on water are blocky and very ugly.

Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:

Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered: Alaska bush trip any leg, or fly on any location with clouds reflecting on water and wind calm / 2-3 knots

PC specs for those who want to assist (if not entered in your profile) 10850K / 32 GB / RTX 3090 (Ultra settings)

Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue: 1.16.2.0

Are you on the Steam or Microsoft Store version? Steam

Did you submit this to Zendesk? If so, what is your ticket #? Submitted already #80738 at the time - you dismissed it as solved but did not do anything to fix this issue.

cgbFlight · June 18, 2021, 9:08pm

Do you have any add-ons in your Community folder? If yes, please remove and retest before posting.
No
Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?
No
Brief description of the issue:
Cloud reflections look blocky / very low resolution in new bush trips (Finland, Sweden tested), ULTRA settings
Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:

Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
Just start the Finland / Sweden bush trips
PC specs for those who want to assist (if not entered in your profile)
Ryzen 3700X, Radeon 5700X, 32G memory
Build Version # when you first started experiencing this issue:
1.17.3
Are you on the Steam or Microsoft Store version?
MS Store
Did you submit this to Zendesk? If so, what is your ticket #?
#108739

mixMugz · June 18, 2021, 9:56pm

This issue exist from beginning.

NeoKingRthur · June 19, 2021, 5:50pm

Cloud reflection are blocky in real life too.

mixMugz · June 19, 2021, 6:08pm

Actualy no. In you picture - cloud reflect from Waves and distort. In MSFS2020 no matter, you have 8bit blocks even on fully flat surface

cgbFlight · June 20, 2021, 4:01pm

But not jaggy, for lack of a better word. The real thing is smoothly curved…

GoldenPeanut732 · June 21, 2021, 4:22am

Are you using add on presets for weather? This happened to me in VR.

cgbFlight · June 21, 2021, 3:59pm

No addons…

Flobud · July 6, 2021, 10:44pm

And it is an even bigger joke in VR.
Please Asobo, do something about it because it’s really awful.

Flobud · July 6, 2021, 10:51pm

This is like this since the beginning and yes, they should do something about it because this is terrible.

SubtotalGuide81 · July 7, 2021, 6:46am

Sometimes the clouds are blocky:

SvenZ · July 16, 2021, 11:11pm

Bump, seeing the same in the Finland bush trip, it looks like the corner of a very low res box reflected in the water.

Lots of texture problems (cloud holes) and low detail water polygons as well. Not really show case material for a bush trip.

DeejayBarney · July 20, 2021, 1:57pm

this also happens in the Patagonia bush trip. Been flying that one this week, and there’s plenty of flying over water to notice this issue there as well.

blueline308 · August 1, 2021, 8:56pm

This is horrible.

RM10GoSu · August 1, 2021, 9:04pm

Its been like this some updates before. Its getting to be a joke at the moment with this sim

blueline308 · August 1, 2021, 9:09pm

I swear I don’t remember it this bad. I gotta look through some screenshots.

MarcG888 · August 1, 2021, 9:13pm

Now that’s Minecraft!

blueline308 · August 1, 2021, 9:17pm

Try it and let me know if you see the same. This was leaving KJFK about 10 miles out over the Atlantic.

CasualOne7471 · August 1, 2021, 9:20pm

How high were you?

PatrickSJ1978 · August 1, 2021, 9:22pm

I noticed something similar today when flying the savage cub. A low res reflection of the scenery in the side window.

Most reflections you see in game are screen space reflections. You’ll notice the blocky part is a reflection of what is above what is being shown on screen.

I haven’t seen these kind of blocky reflections before, and I don’t recall seeing any reflections that weren’t screen space reflections before but maybe I just didn’t notice.
Either these types of reflections are new or they got a serious downgrade in resolution with the last update.