Marketplace CYVR

[Dane]

I have the latest version of Vancouver for 2024 and I can confirm there is grass on the taxiway and Apron 2.
My grass does not go away even if I use the drone and go higher.

FSDT - you need to check ALL taxiway/aprons as I only went to apron 2.

EDIT: I can also confirm that when I removed FSDT CYVR and ran the MSFS2024 default CYVR, there is no grass anywhere.

See attached screen print

[Dane]

I confirm as well - I am NOT using Marketplace version

[BrzI]

I am seeing the grass popping through at LSZH too...aprons are all covered with grass.
My LSZH is from the market place while my CYVR was purchased from the DF site...

Interesting how nobody from FSDT is commenting on this !?

[BrzI]

I am using marketplace LSZH in MSFS 2024 - same. All aprons are covered with grass.

[Dane]

I guess it just shows us which companies care even after they have your money.

There should at least acknowledge that they have seen these posts and are investigating.

I guess it's time to pull the plug on FSDT

[virtuali]

I merged two threads about this, because the issue is the same.

The underlying cause of this problem is a backward compatibility bug with apron transparency, which in MSFS 2024 don't work as they are supposed to, showing grass if the Transparency value of the apron is < 128. Of course, we reported this to MS/Asobo in their developers forum November 14th, a few days before MSFS 2024 came out.

https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/t/apron-opacity-threshold/10965

And it has been flagged as "Bug Logged", meaning they acknowledged it and scheduled it for a fix.

Of course, we couldn't leave several of our sceneries like that and, since there is a workaround, so we worked hard to apply all these workarounds to all our released sceneries, and they came out just in time for MSFS 2024 release, or very shortly after (within the first week).

In case of CYVR, the fixed version is 1.3.1, and it has been available on our Live Update for all users that bought the scenery from either the FSDT site, or other retailers like Simmarket.

The problem is the Marketplace, and specifically the Marketplace for 2024, which is not available yet. If you are in MSFS 2020, version 1.3.1 HAS been released by Microsoft there, because the 2020 Marketplace is currently Live, so we can send updates and they are released fairly quickly. However, version 1.3.1 doesn't really make any difference in 2020, since the fix was useful for 2024 only.

Problem is, the 2024 Marketplace, instead, is not Live yet. You can't buy and you can't download anything. What you are seeing there, are Streamed versions that has been automatically converted by Microsoft from an older version which was available on the 2020 Marketplace when they did this conversion. The 2024 Marketplace is not "live" yet, so when something is updated on the 2020 Marketplace, the Streamed version you see now is not automatically updated.

The version Streamed right now is 1.3.0, the one BEFORE the fix, and that's also why you see the flag "Not approved by creator", because those sceneries have been just setup as they were (on a particular moment in time) by Microsoft, without any testing, but they are not getting live updates, because the 2024 Marketplace is not live yet.

We guess it should be going Live in a few days, and it has been only since YESTERDAY, that Microsoft have given us the ability to APPROVE 2020 sceneries in 2024, and of course we already approved all our sceneries, but I think they won't go Live until after the whole Marketplace will go live, so you should finally see 1.3.1 being streamed and also flagged as "Approved by creator".