…as topic states…
Just gotta mow that lawn.
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I’ve reported this as a bug in Zendesk. It’s really annoying on grass fields.
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It’s the only thing that’s increased in SU5 
give it an update or two and those grass blades will only be visible at 1cm
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Asobo guys exaggerated with electronic fertilizers
MMS of course will be released with the usual bugs, such as: electric mowers won’t plug (US brands won’t be compatible with EU plugs), gasoline models won’t refill fuel. All mowers will only go straight until Lawn Update #3.
Multiplayer will be messy with AI moles adding nasty holes here and there.
XBox version will finally bring order, and a bonus Landmower’s Championship free addon
Nothing new under the sun
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Some grass runways are almost impossible to see now…
btw - for SDK users - does anyone know if there’s a way to change the grass height on your own airports? I assume it’s part of the material properties?
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You can do it by enabling the coloration. The darker you go, the shorter the grass, but it becomes also very sparse, leaving holes in the field, revealing the downgraded textures 
… That might be why the grass got so tall. They hide it pretty well.
interesting - thanks! I’ll play around with it… seems ‘wrong’ to have to change the color to a shade you don’t want to get the grass height you do want
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Indeed, it’s a pain, I mostly devellop grass field and bush strip, so I’m not happy. I hope the xbox users are happy…
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you have to fly upside down with the H135 to mow it…
Yeah, opacity works as well - without destroying the color ( I’m using apron polys for more control )
but the effect just scales the grass evenly, then reduces the density - so you don’t get short, thick grass - only shorter clumps… like you said.
I’m working on a project with a grass runway as well and it just went from “it’s a little too tall” to “where’s my machete?”
Voted !
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Again, a third-party problem. I already know why my community directory remains empty. Looks like the thirdparties need to update their addons. A standard Grass airfield looks like this on Ultra for me:
As "hobby"scenery designer I try to understand your comment however it feels not okay.
Many scenery designers helping out with making the Flightsimulator more realistic.
Basically, the success of a Flightsimulator is also the combination together with third party addons.
This is a proved concept during all the years that Flightsims exists. That is the business. If you want to fly in a more realistic (study level) plane, you need third party addons.
So it is very simple to say: ow… a third party problem… and after that showing your nice grass.
We get it… When I switch off addons I will get the same…however addons exists and MSFS encourage us tofeel free to use it as well or even create sceneries. That’s why they deliver SDK.
So when they update the sim, we expect as well a solution for the changes in the grass runways and aprons in relation to SDK. And of-course MSFS will fix this for the scenery designers or let us know how to fix this based on the new update sim 5, because at this moment it is not possible with the updated version via SDK.
So it is a normal question about the grass and please next time think twice about what to say… it is pointless comment on a serious question.
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Sorry, but they are asking Asobo to take care of the addons. That’s not going to happen. It has always been the case that mods/addons are broken after an update. The third parties are then responsible for fixing their product. It’s the same with XPlane, FSX, FS9, P3D, DCS, Farming Simulator, Stellaris, American/European Truck Simulator, ARMA3, Skyrim, Battletech, TESO, Fallout, Kerbal Space Program etc. … and of course MFS2020. This has nothing to do with arrogance, but with common sense. I am even of the opinion that as long as MFS2020 is not finished, which will be in 10 years at the earliest, it is not worth buying addons.
Hi, where can I find this standard Grass airfield please, thanks
Grass fields are displayed much later when zooming in on the world map. I am from Germany and the picture of me above is Schmoldow airfield (ICAO code: EDBY).
This is not a drill
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Hi Alex, thanks for the airport info, however I don’t see the same grass and I have nothing in community folder, no mods/add ons, and same ultra settings as you have shown…
…quite a difference in grass height in my screens.
As your screens look like it used to be ‘pre update’ I can only conclude that your screens were probably take before the update.
But this really helps to illustrate the problem as a good before and after test, thanks.