[REPORTED] Very low detail areas in Normandy

[Reflected]

Hi,

 

First of all, thank you for updating the Normandy map, it's a huge improvement, IMO. There is a big problem though:

 

Before, the areas outside of the high level detail areas were ugly, but usable. Now they've become much much worse, like in a 1994 game. Can we have the old "ugly parts" restored please?

 

Thank you!

 

E.g. near Calais, the "old ugly parts" still visible on the left side, but then the new ones take over:

 

[twistking]

are you sure, that you mean calais?

i'm asking because calais is really far out from the maps focus area.

 

that said, i guess it would still be good to have those areas look a little bit less like 1994...

[Magic Zach]

Is this a bug or feature request? If so take it to their forum section

[NineLine]

Can you do a comparison shot or track from the old version? If you still have stable installed you sill still have the old version, or give me a track from OB and I will fly it in Stable to compare and send it off to them.

[Reflected]

Something is definitely off on my end, and repairs don't help. I tried ot set terrain textures to high, no joy. I attached a track.

terrain.trk

[NineLine]

I dont think you are off, I noticed something weird as well, but I will view your track, then compare to old version, and report as needed.

 

Thanks

[NineLine]

Reported, thanks!

[Reflected]

Thank you, NineLine!

[Mosler]

i was about to say the same, also the sea cuts to ground suddenly something you will notice if you fly high near calais

[Cunctator]

That seems to a limitation of the terrain engine. It's the same at the edge of the Persian Gulf map, deep in the Indian ocean, far far away from any detailed area, the sea suddenly ends.

[Weta43]

They could just texture where the land starts off the map as sea, like the did with the Californian coast...

[Wolf8312]

Yeah its a bad place to have this happen. The battle of Britain mission is fooking brilliant immersion wise in VR, but the terrain problem is a noticeable detraction/distraction!

[Reflected]

Any words on this, please? Today I found this east of Rouen. That is not the sea. The sea is visible on the left side of the picture. The old "outside of the map lo-res" tiles looked bad, but quite OK for the purpose. This, however, is an immersion breaker for now. Fingers crossed for a quick fix.

 

[MrExplosion]

Yes, can we get an update on this, please? Is this being worked on or are there problems?

[NineLine]

I'll see what I can find out, been busy with our stuff.

[MrExplosion]

I'll see what I can find out, been busy with our stuff.

 

 

Thanks :thumbup:

[Reflected]

Someone posted a report on youtube recently:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfjF9v4kEi4

[Reflected]

This is just beyond Evreux, and that's not water. Do you have any updates on this, please?

 

https://ibb.co/F0xmBj5

 

[Reflected]

bump.

 

Now that the new URGA map is coming, can we expect this to be fixed as well? Thanks!

[Reflected]

Dear Ugra Media,

 

It's been almost a year since this was reported. The Normandy map is in great shape, looks good and performance is awesome. But I'm really disappointed that this atrocious-looking area has not been fixed. The thread title says "Reported" but we haven't heard any official word from you guys. Please fix this. Thank you.

 

[Irishlad200000]

Ugra Media need a kick in the ass. A year later and not even a reply. They have made a lot of money selling this map and have literally put the one finger up to paying customers. ED should be putting pressure on them to repair this. Really pissed off as it's a decent map, however a big black texture is breaking immersion!!!

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[Enduro14]

I imagine they are busy with Syria map still

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On 11/7/2020 at 6:19 PM, Reflected said:

Dear Ugra Media,

 

It's been almost a year since this was reported. The Normandy map is in great shape, looks good and performance is awesome. But I'm really disappointed that this atrocious-looking area has not been fixed. The thread title says "Reported" but we haven't heard any official word from you guys. Please fix this. Thank you.

 

Hideous

[philstyle]

This just highlights the problem with contracting this kind of work without the requirement for ongoing maintenance and improvement.
There was one major update that happened a couple of years back which pretty much saved DCS WW2 at the time. A few more efforts like that could make this product properly competitive.

There are so many issues still with the Normandy map. If only the same level of fidelity was put into this map that is put into the modern jet-related modules we'd be golden.
Would that a team of customers could be put together and given access to this map.. a whole load of problems could be addressed such as the blank areas, rivers flowing up hills, broken road and rail pathing etc....

[BIGNEWY]

The team are currently busy but will be revisiting Normandy, I just can not say when yet. 

 

thanks