I am seeing this a lot, a bleached area where the city is. Is it Photogrammetry that causes this? Or is it something with my MSFS installation.

I suspect that asobo placed satellite imagery there because there was something not great with the original.  Sometimes this can change if you fly at different altitudes.  Sometimes areas can look odd like this when you are flying low and sometimes the textures can begin to look odd as you ascend.

Either that or you have downloaded an addon for that particular area.

Edited May 24, 20233 yr by cianpars

I haven't seen blending issues *that* bad... where is this?

I tend to agree this could be a PG addon.

Easiest way to test this would be for someone to get up and fly around the area. Unless you're using the Google trick or have custom PG installed, we should all be seeing the same thing.

Edited May 24, 20233 yr by mspencer

This is Cardiff, EGFF on the left. I have tried about everything and on this screenshot PG is turned off, no difference. It happens with the default tiles as well as with the Google maps replacement.

Luckily the airport is outside the area otherwise it would be a no-go, like EGNS.

The add-on airport scenery does not cause this I can tell.

 

 

Thanks @superspud for your outstanding, free scenery's ❤️

29 minutes ago, cianpars said:

I suspect that asobo placed satellite imagery there because there was something not great with the original.  Sometimes this can change if you fly at different altitudes.  Sometimes areas can look odd like this when you are flying low and sometimes the textures can begin to look odd as you ascend.

Either that or you have downloaded an addon for that particular area.

I see what you mean, but those are square area's, this one on the screenshot does seem to use a mask. Thanks for helping 🙂

Edited May 24, 20233 yr by Gerwil

One of the pitfalls of photoscenery.  If that's what this is.  I've also seen similar effects with terrain masks, like Bijan seasons.

I'll have to fly from Cardiff and see if I can see this.  My setup is currently totally stock, no add-ons

I just took off from EGFF and flew around the area at 4,000 feet and did not see what you are showing. The line of separation in your screen shot seems to follow a series of roadways and waterways North, then East and out to the sea that you can easily see if you are using Little Navmap or similar program as you fly around the area. I do not have any scenery mods added for this area, so I think you must have something added causing this effect.

While there are some lines of separation between texture areas elsewhere in the UK, I'm not currently seeing it around Cardiff, PG on or off. No add-ons.

Edited May 24, 20233 yr by Bones62

Had a look. No addon on my side. Nothing is wrong except for the half-done City Stadium lawn  😉

Deactivate all the addon to check and that includes using 3rd party imagery like Google.

I just checked again, and I do not have any mods for Cardiff or EGFF. I have the following mods installed for England but do not think any of them could cause that effect at EGFF:

EGNC

EGNV

EGSU

 

Ah, thanks for the help everybody! I think I found it, contrary to what I thought, it's the Google maps. It is not a Map  Enhancement tool issue by itself unless it loads Google masks which it better shouldn't. Both the free and the paid (Pro) Google shows this effect. With the Bing maps (latest) all is fine. Thanks again, solved 🧐😊

It's one factor but I've seen tiles like this all over the USA.  It's typically in areas where the data isn't updated as frequently (rural areas)

It's one big downside of MSFS imagery.  Still happens even without PG enabled.

5 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

It's one factor but I've seen tiles like this all over the USA.  It's typically in areas where the data isn't updated as frequently (rural areas)

It's one big downside of MSFS imagery.  Still happens even without PG enabled.

I've seen that issue, and I've flown over plenty of clouds in Greece of all places, somewhere that should have pretty good satellite data, but the OP's issue was related to Google Earth, which always seemed like... a dicey modification at best.

Diving a little deeper into this, it now clearly shows it was a Google maps thing. Google Earth shows the same lightened area, a mask Google uses to define/lighten up their PG area.