Constantly morphing cliffs.

[Paraffin 2,197]

1 hour ago, Dominique_K said:

Another weird issue. I do not see the morphing which was a bane in P3D, or very rarely.  All the more incomprehensible that I have an older hardware. I do not complain, mind you ! But this is strange. I see the creeping water, I see still some spikes not the morphing.

Maybe you're not flying in areas where the effect is more pronounced? My normal test area is my home town, which is coastal with some low cliffs. The texture pop-in is very noticeable on any of these mesh areas where the ortho imagery has to be vertically stretched to match the mesh.

Another artifact is that I'm seeing segments of the coastal water's edge pop in the same way, right in front of the aircraft when flying low, and only when there are waves burned into the ortho image. Don't know if that's related to the vertical cliff pop-in but I suspect it is, because it's happening at the same close distance. 

This texture popping was not in the Alpha test and I don't remember it being there on release. It was introduced some time later.

 

[Bilbosmeggins 217]

Also, when flying past the morphing cliffs, I couldn’t help but notice a huge, blurry, dark area on the sea that made no sense. As I approached it suddenly became apparent that the sea was dropping down about 30-40’. It looked like a tsunami.

I’m pretty sure that these are fairly recent issues, as I flew the same route some weeks ago, and don’t recall seeing anything as bad as last night’s flight.

[Dominique_K 10,149]

1 hour ago, Paraffin said:

Maybe you're not flying in areas where the effect is more pronounced? 

 

 Maybe but I fly everywhere in the world with a predilection for hilly and coastal terrains.  

 

[Isaiah53six 134]

3 hours ago, ChaoticBeauty said:

Be careful, complaining about this can get people to start calling you a drama queen.

This morphing issue appeared with the USA World Update, and was further exaggerated with the UK World Update when the coastlines were pushed inside the mesh (workaround for the water creeping up). Unfortunately, the only way you can slightly mitigate the issue, is pushing the Terrain Level of Detail slider to 200, or even higher in the UserCfg.opt file. It won't resolve the morphing, but it will be moved further away from your camera's position making it less noticeable.

Asobo have not officially commented on this issue. I would recommend sending a Zendesk report and upvoting this thread in the official forums:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/mountains-and-coastlines-continually-changing-shape-morphing-and-popping-up-and-down-not-terrain-spikes/339453

I was about to post the thread that MrFuzzy appended above as well, it's a good discussion of the issue, however you can see what happens if you talk about it in public.

in  my version it's been there since release....in fact waterways/rivers along the coast of Northern California are a mess since the game was released. 

[blueshark747 1,843]

20 minutes ago, Isaiah53six said:

in  my version it's been there since release....in fact waterways/rivers along the coast of Northern California are a mess since the game was released. 

Agreed!

Rivers looked simply like flooded areas with no ravines and alot of roads look like rivers.

Can't wait to see better terrain elevation and ravines with rivers!

[MrFuzzy 2,118]

On 3/26/2021 at 5:27 PM, Ianrivaldosmith said:

Been there way before that. Looks like it was inherited from FSX....

It didn't happen in the release version

 

[Ianrivaldosmith 5,317]

11 minutes ago, MrFuzzy said:

It didn't happen in the release version

 

It did, just in certain areas and further out. I always say to test fly over Madeira or somewhere similar. 

[Beagle12 139]

On 3/27/2021 at 12:17 AM, Dominique_K said:

Most of them are fixed but you can find some piercing through  in mountainous regions, in PNG for instance. 

 I will check in the Alps on this route.

Also in my home country NZ. Especially the South Island 🤥

[UAL4life 239]

18 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

It didn't happen in the release version

 

A lot of things were better at release than it is today. 

[Dominique_K 10,149]

Saw some ugly stuff in the Galapagos