I think water can be hit or miss in the sim. Sometimes it’s spot-on, sometimes it looks ridiculous. Fly over some lakes on a sunny day, and they seem just unnaturally blue, kind of like the blue we see on the borders of these forums.
Small inland lakes are usually dark in color as a general rule, some green, some black, some crystalline, but for the most part, they’re not represented well in the sim. Rivers can be improved as well, as they are an awful shade of blue in most non-enhanced areas that I fly.
Jorg explained it pretty well in one of the dev streams. There’s really big differences in colour, reflections of the sun on the water, water colour, particles/algae in the water at different times of year. It’s incredibly hard to get to look nice.
If they just stuck in the ‘ACTUAL images’ it would look terrible.
But all water bodies differ in color, so asobo should make somekind of compromise. Let ai generate colors for lakes, ponds, oceans etc. They have done it in X-plane and FSX, so it should not be a big deal.
That’s interesting. I’ve published a few water fixes for some areas and it is such mind numbing, tedious work. I started after my hometown looked like it had a flooding disaster.
I was hoping that the AI would get better with masking water correctly. But then the sim sometimes starts doing crazy tree things after you remove the water. Then you have to remove the trees, lol.
