Can we get rid of these repeated ground texture patterns?

[=Karaya69=VikingSail]

I know this is nothing new but I'd like to raise this issue to those who hasn't noticed it yet. As you can see in the screenshot below, the ground textures on large plains follow a very regular pattern with too little deviations to make it look natural. Particularly in VR it breaks the immersion more than it does outside of VR. 

Humans are naturally good at picking up these repeating patterns even if there are some nuances between them. But instead of using small patches and add randomization to what's inside these patches, maybe the devs can investigate other approaches such as generating larger areas based on some satellite photos?

 

For better illustration of the patterns, here's another copy of the picture without guide lines:

Edited December 15, 2022 by [4H]VikingSail
added picture without guide lines

[BBAS_Tiki_Joe]

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Thanks...., I've never noticed this in my years of playing IL2. Now that you have brought it to my attention, I'll never un-see it, and it will be the only thing I notice. ?

[IckyATLAS]

Yes I did notice that on certain regions of the maps you do have repetition, mainly on flat farmland. But it is a matter of cost speed. That's said some randomization of multiple different patterns are probably possible. As always the problem if you do that is stitching them well together, so that roads interconnect as well as the patches boundaries with trees or other. It is just more work, time and cost.

Satellite imagery does not work here because satellite imagery will give you the countryside in 2022. In the period 1930-45 the farmland topography was much different. Farming technique and cultures as well as farm sizes were very different. Even the crops have changed. Roads, tree lines everything has changed. Many roads were narrow dirt roads sometimes stone paved. Cities and villages were much smaller very often. Today you have highways, a big electrical network of power lines, modern bridges, larger asphalt roads, new high speed railway lines, new factories, large shopping malls (that did not exist back in time)  etc.

Taking satellite imagery and trying to correct it back to the 1930's would be a very large and tedious work not worth the effort I would imagine.