Grass diversity, biome diversity, undergrowth vegetation corrections

[FlyWolf64760571]

I hope it will be implemented as per this fix has no performance effects it’s only and extension of the existing features.

1. Several variety of biomes would be appreciated in the sim as per VFR flying and airstrip landing could be much realistic if we would see high variety of bushes, and mid-sized (0-2 meters) vegetation kinds.
2. Grass diversity would be also appreciated, and hopefully the only fix needed here is to add “dry” autogen grass colours to the already existing grass feature.
   (In SDK with colorization it can be almost perfectly adapted, please find example screenshot below)
   It would mean that a new material needed to be created which is a yellowish grass type. It would demand regional partialization of the globe to differ these areas from sandlands to avoid covering the whole sahara with unrealistic weed but would create a beatiful virtual touring dimension for all of us.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

[N316TS]

I’m expecting that the implementation of seasons may address this, as they are looking at biomes as part of their implementation. But we’ll see!

[FlyWolf64760571]

That would be great, I know this whole project what Asobo does is amazing and it’s a lot of effort to develop a feature. What is surprising to me is that seasons are solved with REX’s extension (I now it’s payware but somehow Asobo and third party developers should realize money) but I found two areas that are not solved by anything, i cannot even fix it in SDK for myself if not for the whole community. One is water surface leveling on large scale and the other one is this biome and undergrowth grass feature. There are databases even to make accurate biomes:
https://ecoregions.appspot.com/

These are my water adjustment whislist items:
https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/water-adjustment-feature-in-sdk/559122

Water level adjustment on rivers , lakes and small water surfaces

Water surfaces (masked areas) should be atomatically leveled and keep the elevation of the center point (like oceans, seas some big lakes where its already working). In case of lakes the center of the lake or a certain validated real world data point on the lake’s surface should be the reference point. In case of rivers the center line of the river should be a reference point. It should get real world elevation data. If the mask could alter the elevation of the original mesh all surfaces woul…

[IcyKenny]

I would love to see MSFS have something like a biome or vegetation update.

[FlyWolf64760571]

Somehow we need to get votes to put this topic on the radar of Asobo.

As per my experiences a lot of people would like to see good grass and correct biomes but only a few people expresses it. We are usually bullied that “it’s a flying simulator not a landing simulator” and staff like that. Somehow it should be implemented by Asobo because it opens a new experience for virtual VFR flyers. I would not mind if it would be a payware feature just let it happen.

[FarFutureFox]

They’re doing at least some of this for 2024 I believe.

[FlyWolf64760571]

Hopefully they will do it for msfs2020. I would love to it here, it does not seem a big task.
As they render green 3d grass from green textures they should add dry colour grass for yellow brownish textres except deserts.