With MSFS 2024, there is a new feature that automatically puts a snow cap over the terrain above a certain altitude depending of the time of the year. While this idea seems very clever, there are many drawbacks, especially in moutainous areas.
It is often unaccurate : snow WHERE there shouldn’t be or snow WHEN there should’nt be.
It is often very ugly : the snow cap has too harsh boundaries and the texture is too white, too plain, and covers some of the nice aerial or satelite imagery underneath. For example, in Himalayas, large parts of the beautiful glaciers are covered with that ugly snow cap all year long.
Those shots are Himalayas in July, September then December, using CUSTOM weather, snow coverage set to 0. We never get to see the actual imagery of the peaks under the snow.
The other big problem with snow coverage is with live weather. This is an old one and, unfortunatly, it is not fixed in 2024. The snow coverage in live weather is too often exagerated and, again, there is too much unrealistic snow where and when there shouldn’t be.
A nice and easy solution would be to give us the opportunity to control the artificial snow coverage with a slider at all time, using live or custom wheather.
Pleave vote it up in the wishlist !!
