Mod Request: UI - Compass

[boba_fettuccine]

Just something small as part of the UI so you don't have to keep jumping back to the map screen when you lose your direction.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

we can not add new things to the UI
there is also no coding in the game for a compass.

[boba_fettuccine]

Originally posted by Hatsune Neko Gaming:

there is also no coding in the game for a compass.

The reticle on the map for the direction the camera is facing is a triangle, it pivots when the camera does.

Could somehow mod it to also sit out of the map screen in a top corner or something.

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

we can not add things to the UI.
best we can do is move stuff around or change the colors.
we can not do anything else to the UI.

[Teirdalin]

Technically someone could make a cheat engine script to grab the left/right angle that the camera is facing and force it to face North with a shortcut key.

I'm not too skilled with cheat engine, but if anyone hanging out around the discussions page is, this could be a fun small project for them. From what I could tell messing around for five minutes, the cameras left/right rotation seems to be calculated like 120 ~ 320 with tons of numbers afterwards. But changing the 4 byte memory for that did not change or freeze the angle, so it may not be found there precisely.

[Cattrina]

True, but using cheat engine is illegal in many countries. We do not use the cheat engine to make mods for that reason, as you might subject the user of said mod to consequences.

[Teirdalin]

Are you able to give, any examples of that at all?

[Cattrina]

Well, the tool itself is not technically illegal, but as it allows one to steal IP, what you do with it can be illegal. In broad terms making a mod using stolen code is such. Here in Finland one gets fined. I have also heard modders get sometimes banned on Steam because of this.

I also have a faint memory reading somewhere, that Chris in particular was against us modders using the cheat engine. Someone with better memory may correct.

I have taken reminding everyone of the possible illegalities as my duty, not because I wish to hamper your joy, but to keep you from doing something you might regret later. Well, at least going in informed of the grey area.

[Teirdalin]

Yeah, generally multiplayer games have checks to see if cheat engine is hooked and vac ban. Kenshi is fortunately single player, and since you're not playing with other players, you technically cannot write a code to grab their IP.

Basically all it does is scans the running processes memory and allows viewing or modifying it in real-time.