Weird autogenerated farmland imagery

[SuperWeedar]

Greetings everyone.

I don’t know after what patch this appeared but I am pretty sure the behaviour have changed since the game launched. I see this multiple places where I fly but this specific screenshot is near Stavanger (Sola Airport) in Norway. There seems to have been some changes in how FS2020 deal with bad satellite photo/photogeometry areas. First of all, the type of farmland is not accurate and the farmland texture doesn’t seem like accurate according to satellite images in this area. Also

Did Asobo at some point change how they deal with areas with bad satellite coverage and deal with this by “guessing” how it is supposed to look like? I’ll try to show what I mean in the photo below:

The yellow markings indicate the kind of (I assume) autogenerated generic farmland that is not accurate and reused in many areas.
The red arrows also shows there are pretty bad conversions between woodlands and farmlands, that looks very unnatural.

Have anyone else noticed this behaviour?

[lynhoffenmeyer]

It’s probably where there were clouds in the photos.

[SuperWeedar]

That’s a good point. I must be very unforunate with my destinations!

Can anyone confirm that this is the case?

[CasualClick]

@SuperWeedar

Can anyone confirm that this is the case?

You’ll need to provide the GPS coordinates over the area you’re flying to allow someone to retest your scenario.

[ClayishCoast9]

Looks like you’re getting ‘generic’ scenery instead of satellite imagery. Those roads and fields are a dead giveaway. Seems this happens when the image data can’t stream fast enough … as a kind of ‘fill in’; and be aware that the delay might well be at the server end, not necessarily your computer/internet.

I have a modest internet speed and see this sometimes and randomly. It doesn’t appear in any kind of organized pattern that I’ve noticed. Sometimes it will fix itself, sometimes you just have to look the other way

Also see discussion here

[SuperWeedar]

You are right! After checking my data settings the checkbox for “Bing data world graphics” was somehow unchecked (??) I have no idea how this have happened, unless it happens automatically if you temporarily lose your connection.

Thanks for saving my day, @ClayishCoast9!

[hendis55]

It does.

I wonder if many of the claims that the updates turned it off aren’t actually caused by this.