Version: 1.XX.XX.X
**Frequency:*Consistently
Severity: *Low/High/Bl
High - important feature not working as expected
Marketplace package name: N/A
Context: DevMode
Similar MSFS 2020 issue: Works as expected in MSFS 202 but NOT MSFS 2024
Bug description:
The MSFS 2024 SDK documentation describes the expected behavior of the View button. It is described in the “Home: Developer Mode / Menus / Debug / SimObject Containers” section as follows:
" You will be able to toggle the different visualisation options for the object on or off (like Sphere, Names, etc…), and you’ll see information about the AI state or the position, etc… Note that some objects will also have two buttons available, Animation and View . The Animation button will open another window with debug information about the state of the animation for the Sim Object. The View button can be used to zoom the camera to view the item. However, note that the View button will only work if you are not using the developer camera and the simulation camera is set to an exterior view (if you click the button while in cockpit view, the camera will be moved inside the object being viewed!)."
The View button does not work while NOT using the developer camera as expected. When the View button is selected(specifically for AIRPLANE Container SimObjects), the camera will zoom to the user aircraft SimObject ONLY and NOT to any other selected AIRPLANE Container SimObjects as described in the documentation. This feature works correctly in MSFS 2020.
Repro steps:
- Enable DevMode (Do not enable the Developer Camera)
- Go to the Debug → Sim Objects → Containers → AIRPLANE → Containers drop-down menu
- Select an Airplane SimObject which is NOT the user’s aircraft.
Result - > The camera will only zoom to user’s aircraft in external view.
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