how to increase trees draw distance fs17
I think SU4 broke this mod. I get no extended tree distance anymore with the mod installed post-SU4.
Hello, it was sim update 1.15.7.0the one that broke this mod. I will remove it shortly.
So is this mod still working or not? If it does, what do I need to do to get it to work?
Hello, this mod is not working, unfortunately.
I will leave it active until the next sim update, and if it's still not working then I will remove it from here.
Dang it. This was a game changing mod. Thank you so much for making this for us. Hopefully it won't go down.
^^^
This should restore this mod to its full capabilities.
I was going to ask the same. Is this mod still needed?
There are already several people claiming that the "fix" didn't fix anything at all. Check official forums and avsim.
Sadly I have to admit that the sim update 1.15.7.0 has rendered my vegetation draw distance fix mod completely useless. I ran tests without any tree mod as well as with the 40-55 and 75-100 packages, and there is absolutely no difference from the default vegetation draw distance. I'm very unhappy about that because now even though the distance has been increased slightly by default, it is significantly reduced even from the 40-55 mod working with the previous version, not to mention the pre-1.14.5.0 versions. I don't see any way of increasing this distance other than increasing the LOD in the config file, but that is being done at the expense of performance and not all of us can afford that. I will update the mod description to reflect the new reality.
Thanks for this amazing mod. With only 100 on Terrain LOD setting (no need to set to 200), I can get rid of the weird little melting "pyramid looking trees" from the photogrammetry trees. I'm using the "40-55" version.
If you have this mod installed already before the 1.14.6.0 update, just make sure to:
- remove this mod from the "Community" folder
- run MSFS
- take a flight and exit MSFS
- reinstall this mod into the "Community" folder.
(Otherwise, this mod won't work)
If you're a first time user of this mod, you can simply install this mod.
Thank you very much for your feedback and for the de detailed instructions.
JJx 2 year(s) ago
I can't seem to get the mod to work. I have removed all mods, started the sim, flew in the area and exited. I then activated the mod 50-75 and no change. Any suggestions?
Hello JJx, sorry to hear that you're having problems. Please keep in mind that the distance has been greatly reduced after the 1.14.5.0 update, so you won't get trees as far as you can see any more, but this mod still manages to increase the distance compared to the default. I wouldn't recommend using the 50-75 package, but rather the 40-55 one.
Seems, the latest hotfix broke this mod - I've got vegetation plopping into sight like crazy now...
Also: Giant trees are back for me - dammit Asobo!
Yup. Agree.
Mod seems totally ineffective now. So they decided to lock out these mods to gain FPS. Very disappointing.
And my FPS are still woeful in busy areas.
I really can't be bothered flying the sim without high tree draw distance. It just lkooks so fake, and removes many of the visual clues of distance, and it exposes the fuzzy terrain in the distance.
Hello, I added a note in the description on how to get the mod working again. Initially I thought that the Terrain LOD doesn't make a difference any more, but it actually does.
Thank God!
Just tested it and it works!
Looking great again and runs well.
Thank you for the mod!
Is it reasonable, then, to assume that a new user will not have that problem, because we would have effectively taken the suggested actions just based on never having had this mod installed in the first place?
Thank you very much for the heads up, let's hope they will come up with an acceptable solution.
Please, everyone go to the MSFS forums and upvote every topic about this. There are a few, many dating back to August. Submit bug reports to zendesk also.
I cannot even begin to understand why they have purposefully disabled what was a fix, albeit a bit of a "hack", when it did nothing but improve visuals, with almost no performance hit.
Or maybe we just need to wait for xplane and google to hook up ????
I have submitted a bug report to Zendesk about this as soon as I noticed the limitation, and I encourage as many people as possible to submit bug reports as well. This the only thing that might get Asobo to address this issue, so please, don't be shy.
Tell me...who doesn't love vegetation? I mean we can't always be flying over, sand, water & rocks...am I right?!
You're absolutely right!
Does terrain LOD actually affect tree draw distance?
I was under the impression tree draw distance was mostly controlled by the trees quality setting, from what I could gather terrain LOD affected the quality of surrounding scenery more than it affected trees.
The terrain LOD does seem to affect the trees draw distance.
Huge thank you for this mod, certainly my favourite fir msfs 2020. It's regrettable that the latest update has reduced the draw distance but I'm hopeful this will be resolved
Thank you very much for your kind words! I as well hope that Asobo will address this issue.
I'm having an issue with the trees which - weirdly enough - started the day before the sim update. My trees are cut in half or levitating when seen from up close (ground level), looking very 2D as well. Is this an issue with the sim or your mod? Like I said, it began BEFORE the update, when I still had the old version of your mod installed. It worked perfectly fine before that. I'm not sure if this is what you're referring to as 'popping out'.
Hello Nektarynka, there has ben another user who has reported a similar issue, but I wasn't able to reproduce the problem. I sincerely doubt that the cause for this is my mod, as you are stating that the problem started happening the day before the sim update, and it has worked perfectly before that. Nothing has changed with the mod, so there must have been something else that caused that problem. For details please read my communication with Dillon from 3 days ago.
I'll test this with and without your mod when I have the time, I was just hoping you'd know cause my sim takes forever to get into a flight lol. Thanks for the reply, have a nice day.
Hi, I love your mod. Thanks
I Use add on linker and it shows another version number then the one your showing (3.0) maybe an idea to change this in the manigfest.sjon??
Hello, thank you for your kind words and for the suggestion. I've never paid attention to the manifest.json file, I've been using the same file for all my addons. But I'll pay more attention in the future. In the meantime I recommend that you edit the manifest file and change the package version to 3.0
it seems like with 1.14.5.0 they rolled back the overall terrain LOD, with the mod you can extend it to that level but not further anymore, could it be that this is the problem? one would need to figure out how to extend the terrain LOD again, or make the trees appear on lower LOD Terrain? https://prnt.sc/10iwr2i
That is correct, with this mod I cannot extend the distance past this newly imposed limit. Unfortunately at this moment I don't see how this limit can be extended.
Love this mod and i'm very bummed out to find out that Sim update 3 has limited the view distance on trees, i hope we can somehow get in touch with Asobo to ask what has changed since SU3. This is by far the best graphics enhancing mod for the sim and i really hope the devs somehow can address this, since the extended view distance on trees did NOT have ANY performance impact for me whatsoever.
Thank you for your kind words, I agree with you that Asobo should have not imposed this limit, or at least explain the reasons.
If I understand correctly this fix no longer extend the radius of rendered trees after Sim Update 3 as it did before. Am I right?
Hello Allespiloti, you are correct, at this moment I don't see any other way of further increasing the vegetation draw distance.
This Sim Update 3 version of this mod (the latest version offered so I'm clear) that was supposed to address what Asobo broke is not playing well for areas like the southern US. KFFC for example the top of the trees are cut off in the whole south Atlanta area and not displaying correctly. I'm calling out one area but I'm sure this is the same for many others. Some trees in the sim are adversely affected by this mod. Asobo really screwed something up with Sim Update 3.
Hello Dillon, this mod should not change the vegetation shape. My guess would be that there might be another addon (one that deals with the vegetation most likely) that is causing that. Try to temporarily remove any such addon, and see if the problem persists when you leave only this one active.
Already tried that. The only thing that fixes it is removing your mod. Go to KFFC outside Atlanta and taxi around. Notice the tops of the trees. You should see this with your mod installed.
Hello Dillon, I have just run a test at KFFC with and without my mod, and there is absolutely no difference in the way the trees look. I took screen captures and they show the trees absolutely identical. I used the 40-55 variant (normal size trees). I couldn't explain why you see the trees changing the shape with my mod, as I can't reproduce the problem.
Not sure what's going on but I'll keep checking. Asobo really screwed this up overall.
Nice mod ! is this also possible with the buildings lod? because its so awful on 200..
Hello, the buildings rendering seems to work differently than the vegetation rendering and I don't know any way of increasing the distance for the buildings.
Do you think it will be possible to make a mod that makes it as good as pre sim update 3?
Hello, unfortunately at this moment I don't see any way of getting the vegetation to the same distance as before the sim update 3.
Same here : the Sim Update 3 has broke this mod! I really hope a solution will be find to bring it back, I just can't fly without it, to have the trees displayed only on few distance away is really a massive immersion breaker! I still don't understand at all why ASOBO doesn't bring it back themselves, it has almost no FPS cost, and really make a huge difference!
Hello Robinhoodmanu, as I told Elay I'm downloading my sim update at the moment, but once that's done I'll check the mod and see what can be done. I'll keep you posted.
Thanks! Your mod really is essential for me, I hope there will be a solution to bring it back...
I've tried to copy directly the values into the MSFS asobo species file but it didn't worked...
I have just released a new mod version tailored for MSFS version 1.14.5.0
Thanks, I will try this, but if I understand correctly the notes in the readme, this sim update had introduced a popping issue with draw distance that can't be fixed yet?
The popping can be fixed (use the 35-50 or the 40-55 variant), but the draw distance has been decreased by Asobo.
It really is a shame! Thanks for your mod anyway, I had wonderful flight with it before the SU3! for now I'm going back to P3D, just can't bear flying with this vegetation low draw distance, it's killing completely the immersion...I do hope ASOBO will eventually hear us about that issue, should have been fixed since months now, and all they do is making it worse update after update...
Source: https://flightsim.to/file/5318/vegetation-draw-distance-fix
My guess is that it will improve how this mod works and not make it obsolete.
let wait to see what the Author does or say.