The OP was having an issue with waypoints 2.0 in the DJI Go 4 app and so I suggested to use Litchi instead because it IS better.
When I was talking about how it looks at a certain compass direction I was talking about DJI Go 4 not Litchi.
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Switching the discussion to Litchi, the example you give is on the right track but isn’t quite what I am talking about. In your example the drone is always looking “south.” Though it dies turn a bit what I am talking about is when the drone turns a COMPLETELY different direction. See below.
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In this new example, which I have modeled after yours, we see the drone fly down the road looking at the houses just like in your example. However, in my new example we have the drone looking at the “south” side of the street and then the next waypoint is almost 150 feet higher than the first waypoint.
Now this is where things get tricky. At what point will the drone ascend to the new height and at what point will it yaw to look at the house that is on the North side of the street?
Will it yaw clockwise or counter clockwise to the new waypoint?
POI #2 is at a higher altitude than POI #1 as well so when will the gimbal pitch to look at the new POI?
By adding an “interpolate” waypoint to this mission I can control those things and when they happen.
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So now with the addition of the “interpolate” waypoint I am telling it to rise half the altitude between waypoint 1 and 3 by the time it gets to waypoint 2. I also want by this time for it to have yawed enough to focus on POI #2 therefore it will continue looking at POi #2 the rest of the mission.
So I know that from waypoint #2 to #3 it will be focusing on the POI #2 the whole time but will ascend much faster the second half of the altitude from that was from waypoint #1 to #3. This way I know I get plenty of shots of POI #2 and this cool effect of it rising quickly while still focusing on POI #2.
No me I could have decided I wanted a continuously gradual transition but I think this is going to be more interesting. The important thing is that I got to chose instead of just letting the drone figure it out.
I’m sorry I know that was long