Strange texture over ocean with clear sky

[nas123]

Edited August 3 by nas123

[martinboehme]

What exactly is different from what you would expect?

This looks like a fairly hazy day to me. The patterns on the ocean are due to water currents. If you mean the dark line at the horizon, that's a know issue with MSFS 2020's atmospheric scattering that will reportedly be fixed in MSFS 2024.

[denny]

just a comment on difference in road colors in the usa very green and in the united kingdom much more realistic grey . asorbo need to have road colors in usa like the united kingdom.

[bobcat999]

The texture is realistic, especially with calm water.  I have seen this many times myself in real life.  Obviously the pattern breaks up when the sea has any significant waves.

It was one of the things about the water that I really liked when I saw it early on in MSFS, along with the speculative highlights of the suns reflection if you have water effects turned to high. 

Also, the alternative to this would be just a flat block of colour, like you see in some other flight sims.

[prolixindec]

Yes, the real-life ocean can really look like that. Winds and currents can push the surface water in varying directions, and from above the pattern can look like what's in the picture. As Rob says, these patterns disappear if there are significant waves going on. 

Edited August 3 by prolixindec

[turnandbank]

Yes, this look on a fairly calm ocean is one of the things msfs does an excellent job of replicating. 

[Sethos]

It's funny, the moment I saw that my brain said "that looks really nice", mimics the erratic flows and currents of even calm water due to wind and other factors. 

It looks jarring when you don't have something like that, just that typical repeated pattern or 'too perfect' calm surface.

[cobalt]

22 hours ago, prolixindec said:

Yes, the real-life ocean can really look like that. Winds and currents can push the surface water in varying directions, and from above the pattern can look like what's in the picture. As Rob says, these patterns disappear if there are significant waves going on. 

Reminds me of a comment someone made a while back in response to complaints about the clouds in MSFS2024, who said that the clouds he saw outside his window looked very unrealistic.

Edited August 4 by cobalt