I'm following up on my post from page 1.
Yes I was out of range when I experienced the issue of the camera not focusing on the POI in my mission.
I had set "Focus POI" and it was a curved path.
Some of these comments seem to conflict.
Can someone verify if it didn't focus on the POI because it was out of range or because I had a curved path?
If I set a straight path and go out of range, will Focus POI work? Will Interpolate work? Will setting an action to tilt the camera work?
Gimbal pitch will not focus on a POI when outside of radio range. Aircraft YAW will. You can make the gimbal pitch transition from degree "x" to degree "x" from waypoint "x" to waypoint "x", although the YAW will turn to focus on POI the pitch is just doing what you told it to do I.E. transition from 62 degrees to 45 degrees between waypoint 5 and waypoint 6. This is achieved by setting your mission settings to "interpolate".
With careful placements of your Waypoints in regard to POI'S, I.E. very little variance in pitch adujustments between Waypoints, continously, or for example setting 2 extra way points either side of every POI
So instead of
W1--POI1---W2
We change it to
W1--W2--POI1--W3--W4
We can make sure we get a good view of POI1,further explanation below.
Now take this example.
W1-POI1-W2-POI2-W3
Let's say the POI'S are not exactly centered between Waypoints in the above example and that Waypoints are set to focus POI. Now let's say W1 decided that to focus on POI1 you need a gimbal pitch degree of 10 but W2 has focused on POI2 and for that the gimbal pitch would need to be 90 degrees, what will now happen is that the gimbal will transition from W1 (10 degrees) to W2 (90 degrees)
So we might get a very quick shot of POI1 whilst at W1 (10 degrees) then the pitch will start changing drastically to meet the 90 degrees set by W2 along with the YAW also changing since W2 has focused to POI2.
We can remedy this by using the following example.
W1--W2--POI1--W3--W4---POI2
Now it does not matter which POI W4 has focused on for YAW (heading) or gimbal pitch because we are adding 2 extra Waypoints per POI in this case W2 and W3 so as long as they are focused on POI1 (and that's why we added them), we are certain we will get the shot, in essence POI2 is no longer effecting W3 pitch or heading. The other way and perhaps easier although not as functional is to adjust your flight path so that all POI'S need a similar gimbal pitch from certain waypoints and then just setting your gimbal pitch to a good average pitch for the mission.
