Am flying through Africa atm , wonder if I can help feed these poor animals with this...

2 minutes ago, espent said:

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?

I have seen a little bit of floating trees with no adjustments applied. I will apply some parameter adjustments later and take a closer look. 

15 minutes ago, espent said:

Have you seen this problem?

Trees seem to be solidly rooted after height adjustments: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iccmd7ojhn20v9k/trees.jpg?dl=0

2 hours ago, espent said:

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

Haha, no I still haven't had a chance yet... Not used it in about a week.

I wonder if other things can be tweaked, eg

• Speed of cars (seems a little too fast)
• Building heights... I think the high rise apartment blocks are a little overdone, too many and too tall. In RL in Sydney 90% of apartment blocks are maybe 5 storeys max (it's probably the same everywhere).
• And I've noticed that in the Philippines there are just far too many apartment blocks in general. In RL most are just sheds, warehouses, factories or other low rise commercial buildings (maybe 2 or 3 storey max), just check Google maps you'll see what I mean....  So it would be good if the number of buildings taller than 3 storeys could be drastically reduced.

 

Edited August 28, 20205 yr by MatthewS

The release version chopped the trees in half before any tweaks compared to the alpha. But yeah, I've seen this "fix" while in the beta as well. You can shrink them even more if you want and change lots of parameters. Pretty cool.

25 minutes ago, MatthewS said:

I wonder if other things can be tweaked, eg

• Speed of cars (seems a little too fast)

I agree, it would look better with the cars and trucks going at about half speed.  I had to lower them in FSX as well, so I will be looking for this setting in MSFS, as the traffic seems to be speeding everywhere in the towns and cities lol!

Edited August 28, 20205 yr by bobcat999

Could you guys please post or share your settings for the vegetation heights?

19 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 hope they don't mess this up.  The tree height in some places is spot on, others their too tall.  Georgia for example their just right.  Hopefully this is regional and not global.

I really hope a mod comes out soon to fix the mushroom & cauliflower look of the trees in this sim!

3 hours ago, bobcat999 said:

I agree, it would look better with the cars and trucks going at about half speed.  I had to lower them in FSX as well, so I will be looking for this setting in MSFS, as the traffic seems to be speeding everywhere in the towns and cities lol!

You guys got it all wrong!  Remember they marketed this to the GTA crowd...so in order for it to appear realistic for them...all cars go 140mph on the freeway, 90 in the 'burbs.  Otherwise you'd be hearing cries of "This is not realistic...I can dive 140 all over the world in GTA" from them. 🤣

Still wondering were all the complaints are about not being able to crash into anything...then again....most of those "simmers" have probably already deleted the sim off their drives the 1st time they tried to crash into their high school and didn't get the appropriate blood and guts everywhere. 🙂

 

28 minutes ago, ThrottleUp said:

I really hope a mod comes out soon to fix the mushroom & cauliflower look of the trees in this sim!

Yes, not sure but in certain areas that I fly over, such as Los Angeles, the trees look strange. Like you described they remind me of brocolli or cauliflower, and the texture looks off, The trees are covering certain streets as well and just looks awful. I wonder if there's a setting that can decrease the effect.

Edited August 28, 20205 yr by captain420

2 hours ago, ThrottleUp said:

I really hope a mod comes out soon to fix the mushroom & cauliflower look of the trees in this sim!

I think when the trees are on Ultra they seem to blend together better, so less noticeable... IDK, maybe I was imagining it.

Edited August 28, 20205 yr by MatthewS
typo: imagining

2 hours ago, Dillon said:

I hope they don't mess this up.  The tree height in some places is spot on, others their too tall.  Georgia for example their just right.  Hopefully this is regional and not global.

It's global setting AFAIK... but I think a lot of people just fly the same areas over and over... ie for myself it's mostly Australia, so I'm happy to have tree size tweaked for Australia even if that means other areas might not look as good.

Also I wonder how the tree heights are distributed between min/max settings....  Is it a bell curve (like nature) or just a linear (random) spread?

Dude there is an edit button, you don't need to multipost.