Seasons 2024 Enhanced - By Bijan - V 1.5 Released

Yes, from above it might look bare but looking down is not the normal viewing while flying an airplane. When viewed normally they look fine:

However I am experimenting to get the best LOD out of them.

This is the same bush in normal viewing:

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Is it possible to increase the density of bushes in these areas, or is that strictly reliant on the ai placement algorithms in the sim itself?

You mean in Greece ? I had a look at different places (around Athens, Skiathos island, Corfu, Samos…), and the density seems okay to me in most places. The game uses what’s called ecoregions to place trees. The majority of greek territory is included in the eoregion represented in pink on the map below. That means the biome within this ecoregion is the same everywhere. You need to find a sweet spot that covers most scenarios. The biome currently set by Bijan seems to work pretty well in most cases.

To get better accuracy at a local level, the vegetation needs to be manually placed (drawing polygons around the concerned area or even using the new “tree” objects in SDK one by one). This is a thing Bijan is doing in certain places, if you suggest him a change.

I’m also working on a freeware mod (that can be used alongside Bijan’s) to enhance the vegetation around famous airports in Greece, starting with Samos and Skiathos islands, manually placing olive tree plantations, pines and terrain mask when needed. I will open a new thread once I get some screenshots to show.

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Another factor to keep in mind that winter landscapes can look pretty bare since lots of bushes and trees lose their leaves. Switch to summer and you’ll see a big difference!

MSFS 2020 users are used to seeing trees with leaves all year round, so the winter scenery can be a bit of a shock!

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Because a) your product is so great, b) you are so responsive and c) it appears you are working WAY too hard, I feel awful to make a request/suggestion, but…

Today I flew roughly along the coast from Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo in Brazil. In the process I discovered a most unusual dam (Represa de Paraibuna): amazing!

One thing I did notice is that the vegetation/tree coverage along the coast and within the area of the above dam in reality seems a bit closer to the original MSFS2024 vegetation than with your mod. Not a massive difference and certainly not an important issue, but possibly something you could look at/consider in the future. Some examples:

With your mod: almost seems like the terrain mask is a bit “off”:

Original MSFS 2024:

Around the dam with your mod:

Original 2024:

As I say: not a significant issue but maybe something to review/consider in the future.

Thanks Bijan: you’re the best!

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Of course, I will look into it. Thanks :slight_smile:

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How does it work?
Do we have to manually download and drag the new files in community folder for each update? Or to change seasons?

Yes, just like almost every other add-on.

Changing season is done from weather panel in the sim and it’s automatic.

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So when we change the date from within the sim, the new season files are loaded on the fly ? That’s new!

Correct. For MSFS 2024, there is no need to change seasons by switching folders like in 2020 version.

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Thank you Bijan for constant updates and improvements, easily one of the best add-ons for fs24 to date. I have another question: is it possible to remove all the blooming flowers from airport grass textures during winter? It’s kind of disturbing seeing all the flowers in december when it was snowing a couple days ago.

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Bjorn thanks for all the magnificent work that you are doing truly outstanding. If there are any areas of Scotland you need please let me know

Thank you :slight_smile:

The only option I see is to remove it with grass all together. It will be flat with no grass or flower just like below:

Left side is after… and right side is with grass and flowers.

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We’re is the link for test it ?
I have for msfs 2020 but we’re is the link for update 2024 ?
Cheers

Thank you for your kind words.
Sure if you have anything that can improve it, I would love to hear your feedback.

Scotland:

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If you own Season Pack 8, it is free, other than that, it can be purchased from here:

Hello Bijan,

If I have to choose, I prefer the left side.

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Please don’t remove grass altogether. That would make me stop using Seasons. In short: never remove FS2024 features that I paid for. Only enhance them! :wink:

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I also wouldn’t want all the grass removed, since in general it looks good, only the blooming flowers during winter are bothering me. This does look perfect for spring and early summer though

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No, that will not happen. Just showing how the results would be if removed.

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