Iceland just gets better

[RootlessAgrarian]

Was exploring the new roads in Iceland recently and it seems to me (I have not gone back to compare older snapshots yet) that a lot of artistic effort has been put into upgrading the terrain texture and vegetation: rock faces seem to look more realistic & randomised, and there's way more plant life (of appropriate kinds) which makes the overall effect far more convincing and scenic. Iceland, which was already awesome, is now even more awesome! Great work, whoever owns the Icelandic back roads.

I have only one gotcha to report, which is that one of the standard "clump of grass" units seems to have a fixed orientation which is not always lined up with the terrain under it. In many locations, these grass clumps are sticking out in mid air off the side of a hill, apparently levitating. This is true for long stretches of roadway, not just in one or two locations: the "flying grass" effect is a bit startling I can revisit and provide a real bug report w/snapshot if this warrants one; in the meantime it seems to me that the problem would be solved very simply in most cases by rotating the grass clump by 90 degrees around its Z (vertical) axis...

[ScuL]

Grass can't be independently rotated, it gets drawn by the terrain. If the terrain is steep the grass may appear to float.

[RootlessAgrarian]

Now that you have mentioned this I've become attentive to it, and have noticed the same problem on roads with steep banks (currently on a two-lane trip in Eastern Europe). So it's a flaw in the terrain algorithm? Oh well. Probably not a high priority for SCS to fix

[edit] but I put it on the Wishlist anyway

[realdeal350]

The grass is a 2D model (like the LOD trees) so no matter where you are the grass will always face you.

[Darkfizch]

the grass will always face you.

spooky

[realdeal350]

Lol