I feel like I must be missing something obvious, but I cannot figure out how to interactively adjust the camera focus distance in the Karma Render View.

I am working in Solaris and I am already in **Camera State mode**. The blue focus plane is visible in the viewport, so the camera state appears to be active correctly.

However, I cannot move or reposition the focus plane. According to the available information, **Shift + left-click** should allow me to set the focus distance by clicking on an object or a point in the scene, but nothing happens when I try it.

To clarify:

* I am already in Camera State mode.
* The blue focus plane is visible.
* Shift + left-click does not change the focus distance.
* The behaviour is the same in both the Karma Render View and the Vulkan viewport.

Am I overlooking an additional option that needs to be enabled?

Has anyone managed to adjust the focus distance interactively in Solaris/Karma, or is this possibly a bug in Houdini 22?

Any suggestions or alternative workflows would be greatly appreciated.

I am currently using Houdini 22 on macOS.

Massimo Baita

This is sometimes a bit flakey. Best would be to submit an RFE with an example scene to reproduce so this can be improved

Thank you for your reply.

I’ve attached a screenshot to better illustrate the issue.

As you can see, I am already in Camera State, and the blue focus plane is correctly displayed in the viewport, which indicates that the camera focus editing mode is active.

According to the documentation and the viewport help, I should be able to interactively move the focus distance using the indicated mouse/keyboard shortcut (highlighted in the screenshot). However, nothing happens when I try. The blue focus plane remains visible, but it cannot be moved interactively.

To clarify:

* I am looking through the camera in Solaris/Karma.
* Camera State is active.
* The blue focus plane is visible.
* The documented shortcut produces no response.
* I have also tested different viewport renderers (including Vulkan), with the same result.

Is there another preference, viewport setting, or camera option that could disable interactive focus editing? Or is this a known issue?

Thank you for any suggestions.