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Hello there,

Ive recently gotten a camera drone and thought I could get some flight hours in with a sim like Liftoff.
Ive seen people mention the issue of a game controllers default position causing a drone to fligh up. the thing is, my IRL drone has a manual mode, a hover mode as well as a mode in which all controlls are from my position as origin. the remote's throttle snaps to the center by default in which the drone maintains its height and position.

is there a way to get this auto throttle feature in this sim as well? I can deal with the ACRO mode not self leveling, but maintaining height and accidentally initiating yaw is a big issue for me. as temporary fix, Ive mapped the throttle to the left trigger.
Originally posted by JuniorDiscart:
Hi

Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing doesn't have any sort of hold-altitude mode. There are other flight modes available though which you might find more interesting than ACRO. You can switch between flight modes using 'A' on your keyboard (default keybinding, unless you changed it). LEVEL mode might more what you're looking for, which auto-stabilizes the drone.
You can somewhat replicate the hold-altitude by tuning the drone setup you will fly most of the time. By adjusting the 'Throttle' settings in the flight controller settings menu, you can tweak it so that the drone stays at the same altitude when the throttle is centered.
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JuniorDiscart  [developer] 8 Jul @ 4:38am 
Hi

Liftoff: FPV Drone Racing doesn't have any sort of hold-altitude mode. There are other flight modes available though which you might find more interesting than ACRO. You can switch between flight modes using 'A' on your keyboard (default keybinding, unless you changed it). LEVEL mode might more what you're looking for, which auto-stabilizes the drone.
You can somewhat replicate the hold-altitude by tuning the drone setup you will fly most of the time. By adjusting the 'Throttle' settings in the flight controller settings menu, you can tweak it so that the drone stays at the same altitude when the throttle is centered.
thank you for replaying. I'll try to become proficient with modified controller settings.

are there any plans to add more modes, maybe in a different/new iteration of liftoff? it would make starting from zero much easier but regardless I do have a lot of fun as it is already.
JuniorDiscart  [developer] 8 Jul @ 9:20am 
Originally posted by Luk4sWorld:
thank you for replaying. I'll try to become proficient with modified controller settings.

are there any plans to add more modes, maybe in a different/new iteration of liftoff? it would make starting from zero much easier but regardless I do have a lot of fun as it is already.

Liftoff: Micro Drones has an Hold Altitude flight mode, which might be more up your alley, but that simulator is aimed at small drones, not necessarily camera drones still. The features of a Liftoff product are aimed at a common feature set shared by the featured drones.
If we do ever add more cinematic-style drones to Liftoff, it might have some additional features indeed that are common to those drones. But there are currently no plans for such drones I'm afraid. So in a distant future perhaps.
i was talking about this with a friend a while ago. she was wondering how there are no drone simulation games about photography/filming. Well, we found one android game with that kind of mission, but it's kind of wonky, not a serious simulation. i guess it might be a very different game from liftoff, but there are definitely people that want to play that kind of thing. It could be an opportunity.
Originally posted by Mara Huldra:
i was talking about this with a friend a while ago. she was wondering how there are no drone simulation games about photography/filming. Well, we found one android game with that kind of mission, but it's kind of wonky, not a serious simulation. i guess it might be a very different game from liftoff, but there are definitely people that want to play that kind of thing. It could be an opportunity.

There are many fpv sims including Liftoff that have quite large and picturesque environments where you can actually practice cinematic things. While there might be or might not certain recording features in a sim itself people just use some screen recording apps and create stunning videos flying in sims. With Night Fever and Slipstream DLC you have variations to existing environments. I don't understand why one can't use fpv sims for cinematic flying/filming, only an imagination is a limit here. Or did you mean you want specific missions? Well it's a lot of extra work which is not worth it, once you complete all missions it's over. While create your own lines and flying them is practically limitless and doesn't require any coding just our imagination and flying :)
Originally posted by BAGRIANYI:
With Night Fever and Slipstream DLC you have variations to existing environments
Yes, Surtur by night is great for this!

Originally posted by BAGRIANYI:
Or did you mean you want specific missions? Well it's a lot of extra work which is not worth it, once you complete all missions it's over.
That's what i meant. For some replayability there could be a random aspect (e.g. a specific object from specific angle. Or objects could move, or try to hide, for example herds of animals), but yes, that's a drawback. It would be more story-driven than competitive.
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