Split, Croatia - military bases look like parking lots

[Ballota1312]

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Split, Croatia, yesterday got a beautiful photogrammetry update.
But there is an issue.
Every place in and around Split that has a military base is now “blacked out” with some terrible gray texture that looks like a huge parking lot from the distance.
I’m guessing the main cause for this was Croatian government when they were issuing permits for the photogrammetry flyovers.
Hope this can be filled in with autogen, just like it was before photogrammetry, because now it looks terrible.
Really sad, because the rest of the city looks beyond amazing and detailed.

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[Baracus250]

I noticed that. Maybe classified information ?

[Ballota1312]

Yes and no.
It’s just regular military bases. Lora naval base in Split, Divulje air base near LDSP airport, radar station on the top of the Kozjak mountain north of Split, Žrnovnica rocket base and Kaštela naval refueling facility.

The Croatian government has a habit of banning any kind of areal filming of these kinds of installations. You can’t fly drones there too.
I’m guessing they issued the same ban on Microsoft and Asobo, when they were doing their photogrammetry flyovers and filming of Split.

But the funny thing is, all of these bases are still visible on the satellite image that you see when you are in the menu, selecting your flight, and it was visible in autogen because the autogen was based upon same satellite imagery.

My hope is that this satellite imagery can be used to fill in these nasty blanks in the photogrammetry.

[Baracus250]

If not I think someone will make a mod for it! (No use if you are on Xbox though )

[Ballota1312]

Yeah, no such user fix would be good for my case, since I’m an Xbox user.

I really hope that Asobo has an easy fix for this.
If they can just inject the old autogen scenery to these places, that would be perfect.

[FlyingPaul]

while the military area thing is a valid explanation, it was definitely okay before. also, the orbx scenery used the default orthophoto to recreate parts of that military base.

[Ballota1312]

Yes.
Reverting these parts back to the default autogen scenery would be the best solution, in my opinion.
I hope that is possible.
Everything would be better then these eyesoring gray textures.

[Ballota1312]

Ok, now it seams that we are half way thorugh fixing our problem.
The autogen buildings and trees are back, but there is still that nasty gray background, instead of the old satellite image that was used before photogrammetry was added.

If the devs can please just add back this small detail, than all of this would be really perfect. Thank you.