Tree height fix

[MatthewS 761]

For those interested, about a week ago SlidHydra647449 posted a tree height fix over in the official forums. 👏

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-fix-the-tree-trees-height-bug-how-to-guide-with-pics/139607

Not tried it yet, but it sounds like all tree (and other vegetation) species can have their min/max heights configured in a XML file.

Great! 👍

Edited August 28, 2020 by MatthewS

[oqvist 11]

Really interesting. I am off fs 2020 for now though. Waiting for vr and choppers so really need the trees cut down 🙂

[SierraDelta 1,342]

5 hours ago, MatthewS said:

Not tried it yet, but it sounds like all tree (and other vegetation) species can have their min/max heights configured in a XML file.

I edited the vegetation sizes a few days ago - much better looking than the default, highly recommended.

[Colonel X 1,430]

3 hours ago, SierraDelta said:

I edited the vegetation sizes a few days ago - much better looking than the default, highly recommended.

Did you make the vegetation taller? Or shorter?

[Jetman67 517]

3 hours ago, SierraDelta said:

I edited the vegetation sizes a few days ago - much better looking than the default, highly recommended.

Looks a lot better,thanks heaps

[bobcat999 8,477]

I have knocked the maximum sizes down a bit (between 10 and 20 per cent depending on the species).  And it is definitely an improvement to my eyes. 👍

[SierraDelta 1,342]

21 minutes ago, Colonel X said:

Did you make the vegetation taller? Or shorter?

As posted in the link above: you have to individually reduce the MIN size (in parenthesis), but specially the MAX size (by about 4-5 points). for all the vegation types. 

Some of the values, such as shrub, bushes might need less of a reduction, though.

[ThomseN_inc 1,128]

Looks great!

Does anyone know what the "frames" parameter is for?

Best regards

[Will Fly For Cheese 1,710]

Can this be done with grass? - thinking all the grass strips have ridiculously long grass

 

[bobcat999 8,477]

1 hour ago, Will Fly For Cheese said:

Can this be done with grass? - thinking all the grass strips have ridiculously long grass

 

You need Microsoft Lawn Mower Simulator for this.  Soon to be in the store I believe! 😀

On a more serious note, there are lots of settings for the various types of flora in there, so I wouldn't be surprised if grass was there.

I also noted they had what looked like RGB shader settings for the trees - that would be useful to implement seasons!  

Edited August 28, 2020 by bobcat999

[step 9]

Love the lawn mower bit !!

[meerkat 86]

26 minutes ago, bobcat999 said:

I also noted they had what looked like RGB shader settings for the trees - that would be useful to implement seasons!  
 

If you look into "10-asobo_species.xml" you find several rgb values for each kind of trees, like b="0.22" g="0.0" r="0.43". My bet is, that these are not for seasonal coloring (which would be done with shaders) but that there are raster files somewhere in the fs-base-cgl folder (kind of vegetation map) where it is color coded which kind of trees has to grow on a "pixel".

[espent 1,396]

13 hours ago, MatthewS said:

For those interested, about a week ago SlidHydra647449 posted a tree height fix over in the official forums. 👏

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/how-to-fix-the-tree-trees-height-bug-how-to-guide-with-pics/139607

Not tried it yet, but it sounds like all tree (and other vegetation) species can have their min/max heights configured in a XML file.

Great! 👍

I seriously thought that you would be the first person on this planet to try this fix 😆👍🏻

[MikeT707 1,181]

I have gone in to both the Biomes and the Species files and made changes. This works well. In regards to grass, I hope someone can find the parameters for this. I would agree that the grass might need to be trimmed a bit. 

[espent 1,396]

1 minute ago, MikeT707 said:

I have gone in to both the Biomes and the Species files and made changes. This works well. In regards to grass, I hope someone can find the parameters for this. I would agree that the grass might need to be trimmed a bit. 

In the original post there are people saying that this causes problems with floating trees. Basically the length of the tree is centered around the middle of it, and by reducing the height you also pull the bottom of the tree up - making it appear to be floating.

Have you seen this problem?