It's an unfortunately problem, but one thing you can do to lower the visual sore eye is to try and fly in realistic weather conditions. Yes, I know sometimes you can see pretty far out there, but most of the time visibility in real life is no more than 10 sm. If you set your weather to 10 sm visibility, or fly using some other type of weather engine, you wont see the problem or at least minimize it. I like flying in hazy conditions with lower visibility. Infinity view is not realistic any way, plus your megascenery tiles will look much more realistic to what you actually encounter in the real world.

That is a good idea specialist. Does anyone know if other states have this problem with the underlying state MSE 2.0 and the city ultra res scenery?

It is also reduced when you change the zoom factor to 40-50%. The default zoom factor for FSX is not realistic with photoscenery. Neil0311's photos in post #8 show the zoom factor has been increased, not decreased as recommended by the MSEV2 developers. Unfortunately there are always going to be anomalies in all photoscenery as MSE developers are no longer water-masking except in large bodies of water. Landing in water with photoscenery will not be a good idea anyway as most of the surrounding area will be flat but I agree with Neil0311, the lack of water-masking around Atlanta really shows up. I have the same issues with the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas especially in the Potomac River. It's ugly but to water mask properly and fix other anomalies would cause the product to be too expensive for most of us so I have learned to live with it. I own almost every State and have bought a couple of hi-res cities but do not see that much of a difference and so I will stay with the States.

 

Best regards,

Zoom was only increased to capture the screenshot.

Checking this out now - re-installing Atlanta Ultra-Res and MSE 2.0 Georgia... standby....

Sorry it took so long to get back to get some screens posted. This is with MSE 2.0 Georgia AND Ultra Res Cities Atlanta both enabled in the scenery.cfg. The ultra res Atlanta is at a HIGHER priority to the MSE 2.0 Georgia.

 

As you can see, there is some kind of haziness that appears over the rivers and lakes. If I disable one or the other (Atlanta or Georgia package), this effect goes away. It only shows up when BOTH are enabled.

 

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PCAviator, can you please comment?

 

Neil,

 

Can now confirm this issue. It's showing on mine as well with Ultra Res Atlanta and MSE 2.0 Georgia both active. Basically a side effect of the same watermasking issues that plague photoreal products (and their designers!). The best solution is to disable the underlying MSE Georgia tiles for the coverage area that Atlanta Ultra-Res takes up. I'll see if I can find out which tiles these are from the developer.

 

This type of anomaly as shown in your screenshots is NOT typical of most other Ultra-Res/MSE 2.0 state package combos, but similar watermasking issues will exhibit in others yes, for all those same watermaksing reasons discussed here and eslewhere.

 

 

The best solution is to disable the underlying MSE Georgia tiles for the coverage area that Atlanta Ultra-Res takes up.

 

This is a good idea and it would benefit us if separate lists were compiled for each of the affected UltraRes cities.  I believe so far Orlando, Atlanta, Washington-Baltimore (Potomac river) , and Philadelphia (Delaware river) have been named.

This is a good idea and it would benefit us if separate lists were compiled for each of the affected UltraRes cities.  I believe so far Orlando, Atlanta, Washington-Baltimore (Potomac river) , and Philadelphia (Delaware river) have been named.

 

Yes, I'll see if I can get this info sorted out via the developer and MSE project manager for this purpose.

This may be a silly question, but would having UTX installed and its corresponding waterclass help with this issue? The reason I'm asking is that I'm considering purchasing some of the ultra-res cities to go on top of the mse states I already own.

 

Thanks in advace

 

 

would having UTX installed and its corresponding waterclass help with this issue?

 

Interesting question because I have been wondering the opposite.  If something underlying, other than UltraRes cities and MSE2, could be causing the issues reported.  I have Philly, Washington, Atlanta, and Orlando, but not gone looking for the reported issues yet.  I do have Ultimate Terrain installed.

Thanks PCAviator for checking into this. That would be awesome if you can find which tiles to remove under the ultra res to fix the problem. Keep us posted. 

fppilot, I don't have UTX installed, and I am getting the same issues, so perhaps that answers your question.

This may be a silly question, but would having UTX installed and its corresponding waterclass help with this issue?

Not a silly question at all. I do have UTX USA installed, but I have tried moving it above MSE, below MSE, and disabling it entirely, and I cannot detect any difference at all.

 

 

fppilot, I don't have UTX installed, and I am getting the same issues, so perhaps that answers your question.

 

I agree.  Thanks for verifying.  Good to eliminate it.

Any update on this issue?