Buildings are totally white under snow condition and when seen from a distance

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: if snow depth value is high enough to cover all the ground, buildings are totally white when seen from a distance (photogrammetry/non-photogrammetry buildings). When getting closer to the buildings they recover their color

Coordinate or location of issue: all cities where you can get snow

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)? always when snow depth is high enough

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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

  1. spawn in flight outside of a city that can have snow in winter
  2. go the the weather panel and increase snow depth enough so that ground/buildings become totally white
  3. fly or move with the drone camera toward the buildings and see their colour coming back when you get closer

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using:

[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?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use? RTX2060

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor (3.60 GHz)
RAM 16GB

MEDIA

New-York:

Warsaw (Poland):

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New York City buildings not loading correctly – severe LOD / photogrammetry issues (This ONLY Happens here)
Snow Coverage still not right
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The videos helped a lot in recreating this issue! Thanks.
Voted!

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Thanks for bringing up the topic to be voted on.

The first video of NYC is spot on.

Pretty horrendous.

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I’m hoping Asobo looking into the snow and ice elements in the sim….voted!!

I submitted an issue with ice/snow effects on lakes, unable to land on what appears to be frozen lake when snow depth is set to max. Also that snow depth and frozen lakes, bays, harbours are not always tied together. In the northeast US ( along with many other locations) we had 4-6 weeks of freezing weather with little snow fall.