Agreed- while it’s nice to have individual grass blades, not everything is green! Swap some of those grass blades out with some flowers, plants, other colorful vegetation.
Would be nice, yep. In areas with large amount of forest, I sometimes think it would be nice to see some dead trees in the mix as well, just to break things up a bit.
+1 from me. I create strictly bush strips, and focusing on Arkansas right now. Many of these are in what some what call hay fields, lol…the hay on either side of the strip can be a few feet tall at times. Check out this video as an example of what I’m talking about: 51AR - Byrd’s Backcountry landing
I like the idea but would also like to have the ability to reign in the longer grass in some places. Knee high grass at my local airport where GA aircraft park in summer is a bit much.
Nice idea, but I think they’re relying on the ground textures to provide this. It would be cool for the AI to figure it out and place crops, flowers etc at lower levels.
I can foresee the outrage already though: This field is a rose farm and the sim shows pansies! I want a refund grrr! lol
The AI can use the colors on the sat map to choose what vegetation to use
Latitude and elevation is also a good indication what can grow where, there are no trees in Greenland.
Time of year as well, we need spring flowers, fall trees and bare trees for winter.
Exactly and it would be a shame not to use it for this type of vegetation too. There is a short grass in some fields why not longer and more different types.
Yep, this needs to be a flora and fauna world/sim update implemented via Black Shark AI. A nice start would be for the AI to identify green rectangles using computer vision, and then fill them with regional cultivated crops. Realism in the midwestern US would be improved massively just by having corn and bean fields, a relatively simple add I’d think that would add realism to tens of thousands of square miles of scenery. I’m actually hoping for this on the US world update.
Other areas should be populated with an autogen mix of wild plants. Grass and trees work from altitude and at decent sized airports. But it’s not great for bush landings or engine out landings always coming down on a pixelated mesh with grass on it.