12 hours ago, Marc22 said:

Use Burning Blue trees with this free season masking; it work really well:

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masks do not cover airports; work far better than any others masking.

I have no idea what these 'mask' products are, or what they are doing? Can you explain what they are doing? Is it about the colours and tones of the ground scenery?

Can you only install one season at a time, or can you install all of the seasons (and northern and southern hemisphere packs)?

20 minutes ago, JYW said:

I have no idea what these 'mask' products are, or what they are doing? Can you explain what they are doing? Is it about the colours and tones of the ground scenery?

Can you only install one season at a time, or can you install all of the seasons (and northern and southern hemisphere packs)?

They change the tone of the ground; more like the season you are in; by installing the mask; for example Autumn mask add bit more yellow brown color the the ground; to tune down green areas that in Autumn are not green. Install only one mask at the time for the season needed. You can use the mask with or without a trees mod; work perfectly also with default trees.

Edited September 3Sep 3 by Marc22

48 minutes ago, JYW said:

I know this post is meaningless without pics, but I did take attempt to take screenshots - but for some reason they never materialised!

I did a 4 way test, with views (same view angle) at 500 AGL and 1500 AGL, at ESOW Vasteras in Sweden, comparing:-

• Bijan's Seasons Enhanced

• Burning Blue Design EGV

• "Sweden Forests" (freeware)

• Default

1st place

BBD EGV - better individual tree rendition and nice rough, non-rounded perimeters around individual wooded areas. Varied tree sizes looked fantastic.

2nd place

Bijan - Very nice rough, non-rounded perimeters around individual wooded areas but a few too many spaces between each tree, where the ugly ground textures were visible. Tree size felt a little smaller than is natural and generally uniform tree sizes.

3rd place

Sweden Forests - Nice geometry for most individual wooded areas and good tree size. But all tree sizes very uniform and too much space between individual trees, that allowed too much of the ugly ground textures to bleed through.

4th place

Default - Not by any means terrible but tree size scale looked oversized and very uniform. Most perimeters around individual tree zones were completely straight, giving the appearance of 'rectangles' around the area (A bit of a 'landclass' look, from the older sims).

NB.... 100% subjective assessment!

Nice, thanks. Could you run a test in tropical areas? I tried Thailand and the difference is night and day: Bijan renders a very plausible and dense rain forest while with BBD, the trees are far too sparse. And too tall 😉

I like it. I guess it depends on how much of a Dendrologist you are but it seems to bring more variety and natural look to it worth the pounds or dollars imho.

On 9/3/2026 at 9:32 PM, AnkH said:

Nice, thanks. Could you run a test in tropical areas? I tried Thailand and the difference is night and day: Bijan renders a very plausible and dense rain forest while with BBD, the trees are far too sparse. And too tall 😉

I just did a short comparison around the Java, Indonesia area; between default, Bijan and BBD. I agree that Bijan looks best in this area. Best for density of trees and variation.

at 20:26 he jumps out and walks through the BB forest. During the whole flight he is praising BB global vegetation.

Enhanced Global Vegetation has been updated to version 1.5.5

We have had huge amounts of feedback, from testers and users. On the back of some observations around realism we have made the following changes: Vegetation & realism: Fixed missing grass at airports worldwide. Our rules were replacing the default airfield grass without re-supplying it.

Reduced tree heights in the Alps. Mature conifers were spawning around 10% too tall, and tall trees no longer appear near the treeline

Fixed wrong pine species across the tropics. Mediterranean umbrella and maritime pines and Rocky Mountain lodgepole had been used as filler in the Bahamas, Caribbean, Central America, Southeast Asia, Himalayan foothills, Bermuda and southern Brazil, now replaced with the correct subtropical pine. Same fix for the Mexican Sierra Madre and Ukrainian steppe

Fixed Florida and Mid-Atlantic pine flatwoods, which were rendering as sagebrush prairie with no pines. Now slash pine and live oak savanna

Fixed the Texas Hill Country, which was rendering as bare prairie the same as the rest of Texas. Now live oak, juniper and mesquite woodland

Fixed Morocco's argan belt, which rendered as dense Mediterranean forest. Now open acacia, wild olive and date palm

Increased tree density in the Iowa and Upper Mississippi bluff country by around 25%

Fixed the Caspian Hyrcanian and Colchic forests, previously dry Mediterranean woodland, plus added a conifer band to the Caucasus and Black Forest

Reduced rare giant redwoods in Kent, France and the UK to their intended rarity

Fixed fan palms in Mediterranean and tropical towns, previously backwards with altitude

Added a laurel forest belt to Madeira and the Canary Islands

I do like the reduced size, maybe they reduced the size not only in the Alps as written in the patch notes. But what I really do not like is the low density of trees, e.g. here in Malaysia (MSFS2024 helipad code: WM3CX):

The same spot with Bijan Season Enhanced, much denser forest and to me, not knowing the area, more plausible

I have used Bijan's addon for awhile now, but I gave this a try. My casual observations:

I flew in Florida and the northeast US.

I don't think it is easy to pick which looks "best", because that's subjective, dependent on conditions and probably varies all over the world, and time of year, etc.

Burning Blue trees are definitely clearer and more defined. While Bijan's does more to capture that "forest" look. With BBD, individual trees stand out more, and the height seems a little more varied. Bijan's trees seem to blend together a little better. It is a little hard to describe, when you look at a bunch of trees, you don't "see" individual" trees, but a blending. Maybe it is just more shadows and darkness in Bijan.

I guess Bijan's captures the forest look a little better, while BBD the individual trees? The fewer trees, BBD looks better, more - Bijans.

Long story short, which am I using moving forward? I'm going with BBD for now, the trees do look very nice. That said, if you already own Bijans, do you need to upgrade? Of course not. That said the cost isn't very high if you are interested in checking them out.

Again though, I don't think there's a "right" answer. They are both good addons and I'm interested to see where both go.

That is why I always report my "findings" and observations directly in their discord channel. If they read it, it might end up as an update in one of the upcoming patches. Like the tree size of the trees in the Alps, which are now spot on after the last update.

My current biggest drawback of BBD is the massively reduced density as depicted above, it is also visible anywhere else if looking closely. This might be closer to reality in many areas, but it also "unmasks" the ugly forest ground textures in the sim, I do not want to look at in close detail ;-)

So yes, Craig, you nailed the point by describing it with Bijans does capture the "forest look" while BBD has the better looking individual trees, totally agree here.

On 9/6/2026 at 5:27 PM, Fielder said:

at 20:26 he jumps out and walks through the BB forest. During the whole flight he is praising BB global vegetation.

All the praising deserved! This creator is experiencing the creme of the crop MSFS 2024 experience. Seeing all that vegetation in VR's stereoscopic 3D in full FOV scale with the top of the line display resolution Dream Air headset is everything! Not expecting 2D users to really understand this level of immersion. This vegetation mod is everything in VR!

Edited September 9Sep 9 by blueshark747

8 minutes ago, blueshark747 said:

All the praising deserved! This creator is experiencing the creme of the crop MSFS 2024 experience. Seeing all that vegetation in VR's stereoscopic 3D in full FOV scale with the top of the line display resolution Dream Air headset is everything! Not expecting 2D users to really understand this level of immersion. This vegetation mod is everything in VR!

Honestly, I doubt that this guy had Bijans version installed before, as such he is comparing to default and of course, it is a huge leap then. But his walkaround basically nicely shows what we were discussing just above: the forest is too sparse. It might be correct in exact this location, but it is certainly not everywhere on the world. You can also clearly see that as soon as the ground foliage is gone, the trees stand on the ugly forest texture I was mentioning and without grass and scrubs, it looks just wrong. Sparsely placed trees mimicking a forest...

But good find, I will check out this location using Bijan as soon as I have time.

6 hours ago, blueshark747 said:

All the praising deserved! This creator is experiencing the creme of the crop MSFS 2024 experience. Seeing all that vegetation in VR's stereoscopic 3D in full FOV scale with the top of the line display resolution Dream Air headset is everything! Not expecting 2D users to really understand this level of immersion. This vegetation mod is everything in VR!

Tne foliage looks great and the Dream Air is (expensive) sweet with 4k per eye. Do you need the paddles for flight sim?

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Is it on the MP?

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