reported Road of death

[Northstar98]

Hi everyone,

 

While exploring Saipan in the Hind, I've found what could be the worst road in DCS as far as geometry goes.

 

The road is called Tapochau road, located on Mount Tapochau and the road leads to the NOAA weather station, at what I think is Saipan's tallest peak.

 

I'll let the images speak for themselves:

 

-camera 188.547581 0.394330 103.314580 -cameradir -0.728861 -0.325129 0.602539:

 

 

Here's a link to the Google Earth streetview of the road, looking to south, as you can see, IRL the road is nothing like as mad as it is in DCS.

 

-camera 189.053080 0.337222 103.588116 -cameradir -0.019332 -0.245212 0.969277:

 

 

And here's a streetview of the area - IRL the buildings are on top of what is essentially a small cliff, and the road curves round, with a much more gentle incline.

 

-camera 187.930876 0.386336 103.646001 -cameradir 0.336455 -0.073660 -0.938814:

 

 

This one isn't so bad, but it does highlight other problems with the geometry - the whole area kinda leaves a fair bit to be desired. The resolution is typically good, but the accuracy is definitely suffering here and many of the buildings in the area look like they've been partially engulfed by a landslide, in some cases it's so severe that at ground level you can look through the bottom of them.

 

I wonder if it might be a good idea to have a pinned thread in the bug reports for problems with geometry, as I'm noticing in quite a few reports I'm noticing issues with the geometry, and generally it's areas being too hilly when in fact they should be flat.

 

[Northstar98]

Tinian has at least one too, on it's southern end (-camera 159.656587 0.022959 93.078049 -cameradir -0.927732 -0.166426 -0.334090):