Has anyone else noticed that the conditions in the drone camera location affect the aircraft? I don’t know if it’s related to the most recent update, but if you fly the drone camera into icing conditions, the airframe and windows ice up on the aircraft - even if it’s outside the icing conditions. If you’re in a cloud on an external view a few miles from the aircraft, you might get back into the cockpit to discover you’re now flying a block of ice!
Also, if the drone camera is moving when you switch back to the cockpit, the plane jerks a little like the physics engine has also been applying that acceleration/inertial force to the airframe. Most easily noticed if you’re sitting on the ground at the time - the plane will jump up on the tarmac a bit.
I think the drone camera position is also applied to the weather radar; since it takes a few seconds to update, if you jump back into the cockpit you’ll see that the current radar sweep is replacing something that’s clearly from a different position.
I’ve not tested to conclusively see whether wind conditions are applied too, but I’m suspicious…
Is this happening on anyone else’s sim? Is it just a strange aberration on my install? Because it seems like an absolutely mad way to process 1st/3rd person views…
This behavior is also described in this thread’s comments:
So at least it seems like the air density or whatever causes the issue in that thread also is applied based on the drone’s position instead of the aircraft’s.
That’s normally caused by ‘flying’ the drone far enough away that the ground under your plane switches LOD, causing a change in the elevation. When you change camera views, instead of being able to gradually change back to the more detailed LOD, it just immediately snaps back. This causes the aircraft to jump or drop depending on the changes.
Do you have any add-ons in your Community folder? If yes, please remove and retest before posting.
This has been consistent with and without community addons since I first noticed it a year ago
Are you using Developer Mode or made changes in it?
No
Brief description of the issue:
The conditions at the drone camera position are applied to the aircraft, no matter how far away it is. You can be cruising in warm air, move the drone camera miles away into a cloud, and when you switch back to cockpit view there’s ice on the windows. The same if you take the drone camera into rain - switch back to cockpit view, and you get 1/2 second of rain effects on the windscreen.
Provide Screenshot(s)/video(s) of the issue encountered:
Check it for yourself, developers - you have to play the game sometimes haha!
Detail steps to reproduce the issue encountered:
As described - fly the drone camera into icing or rain conditions not present at the aircraft position.
Extra musings - why would the game ever be programmed so that this was possible? Isn’t it a fundamentally weird bug? Is this why there’s no option to have multiple views simultaneously in-game? Because of a conflict in conditions in multiple locations being applied to the aircraft?
It’s likely the same issue as this bug. I do hope the community will upvote these to get Asobo’s attention. For all the posts about aircraft performance and visuals, this seems like just as big an issue.