Camera panel Drone focus mode setting is not working

ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

The “Drone focus mode” on the “Showcase” tab of the camera panel (aka drone cam) does not act like advertised by its available settings besides “Disabled”.

  • “Auto” does nothing in comparison to "Disabled.
  • “Manual” does what “Auto” should do with the amount of blur being set by “Drone focus” (so it keeps in focus what’s within the screens center only). You cannot keep something in focus wich is off-center this way and as such draws the manual setting useless.

Also the displayed setting always reverts to “Disabled” whenever the camera panel was closed and reopened.

Did you experience this issue before you joined the Beta?

No/not tested.

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

No (nothing installed what alters camera settings)

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

Always

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Open the camera panel, select “Drone focus mode” = Auto. Set “Drone focus” and “Zoom level” to something high. Expectation: Moving the aircraft into the screens center will blur the surroundings, moving it off-center the aircraft will be blurred.
  2. Select “Drone focus mode” = Manual. Keep the other settings as is. Expectation: Moving the camera will keep the focus constant, so either the aircraft or the surroundings will be blurred depending on the settings. The focus will not switch if something is moved into the screens center.
  3. Close the camera panel and reopen it. The last setting (in this case “Manual”) should still be set.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:

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[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

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[PC Only] Many issues may be due to an outdated graphics card. Please state your Graphics Card Driver Manufacturer (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD) and Version:

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[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
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MEDIA

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After selecting the “Auto” option



After selecting “Manual” and moving the camera


After closing and reopening the camera panel

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue: When you are in drone mode you are not able to enable the focus mode. Clicking the focus button (F1) turn the focus up in the camera menu from the top bar but nothing happens.

Foreground blur doesn’t work either.

I’m running the SU2 beta but if I remember correctly it didn’t work in the non beta version either.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Not something that happens. It just doesn’t work at all.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. Load in to an aircraft.
  2. Press the focus button (F1 for drone focus, F3 for foreground blur)
  3. See how nothing happens.

YOUR SETTINGS

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
I’m using dev mode but never changed anything in it.

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
4070

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
64gb ram, 7800x3d

MEDIA

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I think that drone camera auto-focus might be working now. Could somebody kindly check?
The camera window is not saving the drone focus mode when you close it, however.