I’ll also add my grain of salt : I can definitely see lines in the trees’ mass. Like if trees were not evenly distributed. It wasn’t happening on release (but hey, almost every beautiful feature of the sim has been downgraded since release so…).
What I hope is that the Xbox Beta we have been testing (cuz’ whe have, and Asobo should stop denying it 
) hopefully ends when it gets out for Xbox, and then maybe the downgrade madness will eventually end.
Cheers.
Rob on the avsim forums seems to have made a major step forward in making a new mod fix for this issue. (i can’t post the link, just google it…)
At this point I just find it hard to accept, that the community fixes this problem before the devs even properly adressed it…
I just hope the fix actually works and that the devs don’t mess it up again…
If it does work hopefully it’s not a paid mod and the workaround will be made public.
i fear that aswell especially from the “looking for more beta testers”
it does look promising:
I agree with you, though it is hard to pinpoint exactly what else has been downgraded. The trees for sure, but what else do you think has?
I think (maybe I’m wrong) those have been downgraded :
Tree density (I remember I could not see lines and patterns in the forest, now I can)
Tree and building appearing distance
Clouds (it is the most disappointing downgrade imho, those where insane on release)
ground texture at distance
Yep I think I can agree with all of that. It is all very disappointing isn’t it. I used just to be blown away when the sim first came out, just not so anymore. Really sad, and I don’t even think the performance has increased so I just don’t understand why they have done it. I saved up for a long time to build an absolute top of range PC to enjoy the new sim on absolute max settings, and I just feel cheated because with everything on max it looks nowhere near as good as it used to.
Note to mods: Sorry, I forgot to search for similar topic. Will remember that next time!
A lot of my flying is spent over forests, specially Brazilian Amazon. Its important for immersion to see tropical forest stretching to the horizon. But it stops suddenly making it look like just a garden 
Not asking for hi-rez trees all the way to horizon but could Microsoft do something to give the illusion of that in a future update? What can we do? Will this be fixed?
Yellow arrows show where the tree line ends.
Real world:
It will be a payware mod (when released)
At the bottom of that page…
So still sounds pretty functional without costing any money.
What happens when someone figures out the method used to increase the tree range from this mod and offers a free version?
So in last Q&A was said, that tree’s draw distance will be improved in Sim Update 5… (27 July)
Sounds good and also shown videos looked little bit better, I hope public release of SU 5 won’t end up with improvement by 0.1 mile…
Also I still do not get why they won’t implement draw distance sliders in settings, which is the easiest solution.
…or just take a look on what was changed with the december update and roll it back?
They said in the Q&A that they found the bug that connected the tree draw distance to latitude and this will be fixed. So at least this problem should be gone. If the overall draw distance (that should then be the same all over the world) is sufficient and comparable to earlier versions, we will see.
Big chance the good old trees draw distance fix mods will work again, after the latitude bug is gone. 
After almost a year and all the previous patches I’d say: don’t get your hopes up. Though that one dies last I guess… 
Haha, for me, SU5 on July 27 still lacks the trees draw distance fix. Been so many disappointments because of Asobo since the release last year. The MSFS has potential but Jorg’s eagerness to make as much money as quickly as possible eventually kills the series. The bugs should be fixed first, not making useless World Updates or Maverick add-ons before the sim is flyable.
This is a picture with ultra settings, trees set to max. The plane is at 6000 ft, about 5500 ft agl.
Notice the terrible smudgyness all around the picture except for right underneath the aircraft. Look at how the tree draw distance is right underneath the plane. I know they said they are going to fix it in the next sim update, but man… It’s friggin ugly, and not much better than yesteryears sims!
Please click the picture a couple of times to get to the full image to see what I see in the sim.
@Bullhorns78 I (very much !) share your concerns about tree distance, but please use the upload button to post an image on this forum. When I clicked your image to enlarge it, spam pops up.. the forum provides us with means to avoid that.. thx
This addon will be awesome
