Bad LOD in Alaska (Mountains)

[wiggum 9]

Hi,

 

not using any mods. The LOD in Alaska seems pretty bad, especially for the snow covered mountains in some places.

Not having such a problem in other places. I was told the Bing Maps for Alaska are know to be bad and there ther is a bug so the further you go north in the world the worse the LOD gets?

Have you experianced something similar in Alaska?

[Daube 353]

I have the same problem. Yesterday I did a short flight from Sitka to Juneau, and the ground textures were quite disappointing, just like the mountain mesh.

Additionally, there were large patches of generic textures (which means the ground textures originally had clouds on them).

And of course, from Juneau to the north/west, everything was still under snow, including the sea water surface...

[wiggum 9]

So this is a bigger problem then?

 

[Beardyman 604]

NA Alaska Mesh - Microsoft Flight Simulator - Orbx (orbxdirect.com)

Maybe that will help ?

[Cpt_Piett 4,642]

36 minutes ago, Beardyman said:

NA Alaska Mesh - Microsoft Flight Simulator - Orbx (orbxdirect.com)

Maybe that will help ?

I think their meshes (?) are buggy due to SU9 conflict. NZ has been updated, and Alaska & Himalaya/Asia are scheduled for update, but no ETA yet.

[Gilandred 690]

Alaska is pretty bad, and for that matter the northern Rockies into Canada as well.  I have a few payware airports in that area that don’t get much use due to the disappointing ground textures.  I hope this is high on their list to improve as I would think this is a popular area for flight simmers.

[Cyrex1984 176]

Its somehow the same problem in every place in the northern hemisphere with the LOD. I think its a bug.

[wiggum 9]

Yeah but this bug seems to be known since mid 2021. Still not fixed it seems. You would think that with the second USA World Update they would fix that.

[The Moose 1,177]

Texture wise, neither of the two popular map providers seem to have good, complete coverage of Alaska.  Both Google and the new Bing data are patchy in their coverage, though both have better imagery than we currently have in many places.   I'm not sure how they intend to improve the whole of Alaska with consistency without completely fresh images.

Mesh wise I think the Orbx mesh does a very good job, though as i don't live there i cant vouch for it's accuracy, but it's certainly am improvement on default...     but it's currently broken.

[Mace 1,926]

8 hours ago, wiggum said:

Hi,

 

not using any mods. The LOD in Alaska seems pretty bad, especially for the snow covered mountains in some places.

Not having such a problem in other places. I was told the Bing Maps for Alaska are know to be bad and there ther is a bug so the further you go north in the world the worse the LOD gets?

Have you experianced something similar in Alaska?

The LOD isn't good in some areas of the Canadian arctic either.  It's probably partly the source imagery as you mention.

[shamrockflyer 647]

LOD aside, the main issue for me is seeing snow covered areas in Alaska that are 18+ celsius.

[Farlis 2,287]

2 hours ago, shamrockflyer said:

LOD aside, the main issue for me is seeing snow covered areas in Alaska that are 18+ celsius.

That's an issue with Meteoblue's snowcoverage data, which is read at the lowest possible resolution instead of the hightest.

Has been discussed many times on the official forum, yet the devs seem to ignore the issue for the time being. 

[shamrockflyer 647]

2 hours ago, Farlis said:

yet the devs seem to ignore the issue for the time being. 

Which seems to be a very common theme with Asobo.

[Tuskin38 6,491]

1 hour ago, shamrockflyer said:

Which seems to be a very common theme with Asobo.

It doesn't impact the stability of the sim so it won't be high priority.

[Gazzareth 808]

Coverage up there does seem poor, was excited to hear PAVD had been replaced with a bespoke airport. But Port Valdez itself looks like a disaster zone!

 

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