## Simplified Report
Currently, if Auto Depth navigation is enabled and the mouse is over a reference image, the viewport will rotate around the image, meaning its depth is taken into consideration.
The users suggests that this shouldn't happen and reference images should be exempted from auto depth navigation.
## Original Report
**System Information**
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19044-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 516.59
**Blender Version**
Broken: version: 3.3.0, branch: master, commit date: 2022-09-06 15:39, hash: `rB0759f671ce1f`
(same broken behavior observed in 3.2.2)
Worked: unknown.
**Short description of error**
When you have an image as reference (i.e. blueprint) behind your model AND you have the mouse over the reference image when you want to rotate around the model, the Auto Depth setting will use the reference image depth as the orbit point UNLESS the image has been given some transparency. works fine when the image is deselected again after given some transparency and the model is selected and at least used once as rotation depth again (mouse over model). the point being: a reference image should never be considered the rotation depth focal point and shouldn't need to have transparency set to not ever be misrecognized as such.
**Exact steps for others to reproduce the error**
add a reference image behind the default cube at a bit of a distance (say ~10-20 meters)
settings that may be relevant for reproduction:
NAVIGATION pane under PREFERENCES:
[ ] Orbit Around Selection -------------- (unchecked)
[ ] Auto: Perspective --------------------- (unchecked)
[x] Auto: Depth --------------------------- (checked)
[x] Zoom to Mouse Position ----------- (checked)
do NOT set any transparency for the reference image configuration YET
1) MMB rotate around the default cube WHILE mouse over the default cube (should work as intended)
2) MMB rotate around the default cube WHILE mouse next to the default cube and 'coincidentally' over the reference image (should use the reference as rotation point in this case)
then the control group test:
- GIVE the REFERENCE IMAGE some TRANSPARENCY in the image configuration options
- reselect the default cube and begin test start from "1)" again (mouse over default cube rotation)
in this case "1)" should again work as intended
AND "2)" should work as desired now as well (MMB default cube rotation while mouse 'coincidentally' over the background image) - it shouldn't use the reference as depth rotation point this time
Argument: an image added as reference should never be used as rotational point for Auto Depth when the user tries to rotate around his model while coincidentally holding the mouse cursor over the reference image, no matter the transparency setting of the image.
Should be doable with images added as BACKGROUND, but never with images used for reference.