CU12 Leipzig: all pg buildings are green

[aurel42de]

Forgive me if I cannot be bothered to spend more time writing this bug report than QA did on their final check before this content was pushed out.

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

All photogrammetry buildings in Leipzig have green facades or house fronts, frequently also green rooftops.

Coordinate or location of issue:

Leipzig, Germany

According to other posters in this thread also affected to various degrees:
Kiel and Dresden, Germany
Bern and Zurich, Switzerland
Vienna and Salzburg, Austria

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Always

REPRODUCTION STEPS

On the world map, create a custom departure point on the ground in the city area of Leipzig (center the map on EDDP, you’ll find the city east of the airport). Use the drone cam or other applicable means to look around. All the facades are green. (If they aren’t, face the opposite direction. Now all the facades are green.)

MEDIA

These posts have images:

Xbox @ gamescom 2025

Today I learned that Leipzig is the greenest city on the planet. No idea if that issue affects other cities in CU12 as well, or photogrammetry in FS24 generally. I only checked out Leipzig and decided I’d give SU3/CU12 a couple of days to… erm… ripen. [image]

Xbox @ gamescom 2025

I was wondering why they would release a “City Update” of cities that were already in the Sim. And cities in the trailer were exactly like the ones we had. So while in the trailer they showed off the OLD PG data, the new ones are new scans, yes, but ugly green. The picture is one of the buildings in the trailer. This is what it looks like now in the sim. Not really an update. [Palais]

[Taciu]

The green color of PG buildings and the shadows of buildings is a problem known since releasing MSFS 2024. Not only CU12, but Bern, Zurich, Vienna, Salzburg and others. No one tried to change that. The scenery of Mannheim, Graz, or Stuttgart looks much better, so it can be fixed, but no one has undertaken it yet

[aurel42de]

Interesting. I watch all the Dev streams and I don’t remember this ever coming up. Also can’t remember a matching bug or wishlist item in the weekly top lists. Might have missed it.

After your post, I searched again and found a bunch of posts discussing red tinted PG in FS20 and green tinted PG in FS24; indeed, it appears to be well-known.

[Taciu]

If you use the Enhanced Photogrammetry application, after CU12 you will see brown mud and not water in the Bremen area. Until the update comes out, turn off this add-on.

[GeeStoerty]

Wow this really looks really bad in Leipzig…

I think that the biggest TIN failure I’ve ever seen here

[Medevac71]

Same with CU12 Kiel. A lot of green roofs/buildings/shadows… The TIN before was actually much better, not as large, but higher quality. CU12 data, at least for Kiel, seams to be from around 2020.

[BlitzMeerkat]

Also in Dresden in some places green tints… Otherwise really good PG.

[GeeStoerty]

My summary so far; 3 good, 3 bad cities

[Polls] City Update 12: Germany

As always, thanks for the free update. I always appreciate new TIN cities over autogen-buildings (actually, what’s the status on the new upcoming autogen-tech? Haven’t heard anything for many months now) Here are my first impressions: Münster, Bremen, Augburg look pretty great and a joy to explore Dresden, Leipzig, Kiel are completely ruined Main issues: massive green tinted buildings in Dresden, Leipzig, Kiel seeminly low detail / messy scans also in these 3 citi…

[EarthFlight42]

Some more screenshots from Leipzig and surroundings:

Leipzig Grünau. (The name does not imply all the building bocks are supposed to be greenish.)

With City Update 12 w/o City Update 12 as comparison

Leipzig Musikviertel (directly SW of city center, city hall is at top left in image):

With City Update 12 w/o City Update 12 as comparison

In the city center and west of it the problem is most pronounced when looking at the city from north east in the afternoon or evening (e.g. summertime, 6 pm.). Here’s the city center with the opera and the “Gewandhaus” concert hall (at “Augustusplatz”). Oh dear!

Here an example looking from another direction (from NE) over the “Leipzig Neustadt” quarter to the Leipzig main station in the background at 11 a.m. flight time:

… and also very prominently a bit further, directly east of the main station terminal:

With City Update 12 w/o City Update 12 as comparison

This last comparison shows improvements in vegetation clean-up in the new PG version and that the old version also had some (few) greenish facades. And yet they showed more detail.

Sorry, but in this state the whole new PG scenery is a disappointment and I will turn it off while flying over Leipzig.

(Side note: The old PG imagery was shot around 2013, the new one likely 2021.)

I am aware that fixing this will likely be a big effort that won’t be undertaken, I presume.

P.S. I have no other scenery installed for this area, this is vanilla FS2024 w/ SU3.

[aurel42de]

If it wasn’t for the green tint and the PG trees, this would be really impressive.