Any way to flip the polarity? I am using Real Solar Systems to create a game and, as was stated by YAKFLY, north and south are reversed. Seems weird that in vanilla the sun sets in the west but while creating planets I have to set them to negative rotation to get that to happen. Worst case I will have to just reverse the orbital and rotational directions for this mod to be accurate. Great work btw. We all love this mod and I won't play without it.

@Desdemona the Commands are case sensitive, even True and False

Is there any way to change the color of the compass-tape? Very difficult to read on some worlds as it gets washed-out by the terrain/sky colors, e.g. in the snow on Earth-like. Be great to be able to set this to another color that works great with whatever planet you happen to be on!

Very useful but WRONG : it is inverted in both North/Sud and East/West compared to the maps displayed on official Wiki.

for some reason when using the commands i just get "error executing command" ive checked and rechecked im entering the command correctly

A must have in any case

pls make the waypoints can show in the compass

@The_Bum_Dave: Because you are moving in a western direction. The UTC is a universal time that always increments. The local time tries to give a clock mapped to the day-night cycle, so depends on where you are on the planet and the direction you are moving.

Is there a way of turning the colour of the compass numbers black during the day (daytime mode) in Pertam the sky glare obscures the numbers

I know someone who wants to have your baby. On my end, I'm really happy having this mod.

/Compass ShowClock [24HourDateTime/12HourDateTime/24HourTime/12HourTime/Off]
example
/Compass ShowClock 24HourDateTime

kindly explain how to enable the clock.. as the / instruction dont work get msg error executing command

For the clock portion, is there a reason that UTC is ticking up but Local is ticking down?

Please tell us how to change the color of the "CompassCharacter"s is it the Color.White arg in Compass element in Client.cs? If so how do I change it and have it show up in my save as a different color if not where is the value that needs to be changed? I can't see white text on a white background sky!

Well I tried to change the code and swapped N/S poles, the only problem now is the sun now rises from west,but I guess we aren't even in solar system so nothing to worry abt

Is north(0deg) pointing to Y- and south(180deg) is Y+? Can I swap them? Since planet terrain height pictures are mapped to actual planet in the other way.

Great mod, but is there any way to change color yet?

For Space it would be nice to have a fixed set of 2 "Compasses"

Basically you use math to generate the Polar representation of the looking vector: radius, Inclination and azimuth.
For the HUD the inclination and azimuth angle would be nice to be displayed. One may be on the right or left side.
As you did the math with planets, i think you are more than capable :)

So yeah the compass is great, I use it all the time.

Please, make a space compass :)

Is there an option for a pole swap? Been driving around on Earth in The Sol System 4, trying to get from S-America to N-America and ended up in Argentina since N pointed to S ;-)

Make a align to grid option for space so you always know your digging in a straight line, and maybe make it 360 so you know if your angle has changed

Suggestion : Change the font colour to a dark colour but still visible in space. It is practically invisible during daytime on planets with an atmosphere as the sky is too bright.

I would love to see a dark bg on this hud.
If theres any way to break it from the character and make it work from the camera, or perhaps from a turret camera at least, that would be amazing

Throwing my vote in for a dark background to the HUD compass as has been mentioned before. When playing on planets (specifically for Scrapyard Engineers by Splitsie), it's almost impossible to see the HUD during the day.

Hi Zelios,

You mentioned that your original purpose with this mod was to help groups of players co-ordinate in multiplayer quickly, but as someone who only really plays alone, I still find this mod very useful, for two main reasons.

a} I like basing at the poles, both because of the ice caps for producing hydrogen, and because of the length of the solar day, for solar power. When on the surface of planets, finding the polar directions on my own can be difficult. This mod allows me to do that almost instantly.

b} I like establishing logistical resupply corridors, oriented along the cardinal directions, particularly during the early game. This mod again makes that very easy.

Thank you for this great contribution.
Petrus

/Compass ShowClock 24HourDateTime

@DasKrusty... remove the brackets

Trying to get the clock to show on Hud, used /Compass ShowClock [24HourDateTime] in chat, but not working, what am I doing wrong?

If this mod was not a mod but the main game, and Space Engineers was not the game but the mod for the Compass game, I would be more likely to buy it still than Space Engineers.

Is it possible for the local time to be available for scripts to retrieve at any given time?

Is it possible to get a greyed background behind the compass markings to improve contrast (especially on worlds like Pertam)?

I could not get the compass to change with the chat commands. I had to find the file in %AppData%\SpaceEngineers\Storage, then the CompassConfig.cfg and change the options there. You have to be in the main menu or not have the game open for the changes you make here to apply the next time you open a world.

Don't know why it didn't work when I tried to use the chat commands, but that's what it is.

"“Oi! Dude who made compass mod. Make clock mod!” - W4stedspace, Uncooperative Survival #50 – 3:34:36 - https://youtu.be/ScyEguYAGKo?t=12855" this made me laugh

Is there a way to change the font color? I have trouble seeing the compass on Petram

I can't get this mod to work, even after typing "/Compass Enable True". I have the Text HUD API installed.

“Oi! Dude who made compass mod. Make HudCompass colourable!" - W4stedspace (probably)

More seriously, thank you for your mods. I do echo @Raj's request below though. White atmosphere anything obliterates the compass. Is it possible to comparitively XOR with whatever's behind the compass, for example? (Like I wish they did with the screen center reticle. And gps txt.

Just confirming after a lot of game reloads, this mod definitely breaks Scenario Objectives and messages. Seems like it hasn't been updated in 3 years, so maybe it's time to ice this mod as the modder has not really responded to update.

is there a way to add a background to the compass or change the font colors manually? On certain planets the sky is too bright and basically hides the compass unless you look at the ground.

is there an option to move where the placement is on the screen?
it covers up some of the weapons core HUD

Would be really useful if the hud actually show gps coordinates, I would imagine it would show by default...

hey, using the plugin version of this iv noticed that it breaks the scenarios, the state machines which run the scenario dont reload after first save and log out.

You might want to add this to your description.
The instructions are not very clear for beginners.

HUD Compass Settings

Use chat to set.

/Compass ShowClock [24HourDateTime/12HourDateTime/24HourTime/12HourTime/Off]

For 'military' time and date
/Compass ShowClock 24HourDateTime On

For 'standard' time and date
/Compass ShowClock 12HourDateTime On

For just the time
/Compass ShowClock 12HourTime On
or
/Compass ShowClock 24HourTime On

Why did SE not make something like this built in?

Is there any way to change the font color in the compass. The white color is very hard to read on planets like Pertam and Triton (any planet that has bright skies).

Thanks for the work on this.

As great as this mod is, it would be even greater if you could add an altimeter that showed me my altitude even when I'm not flying a ship.

EXAMPLE: /Compass ShowClock 24HourTime

today the mod wouldnt work for me with only the mod on a new game

helo. All hud chat commands like clock or deg dont work. Stay save.

Unable to use the clock. Gives error executing commands message.

this mod seems to alter the rate at which a survival kit refills your hydrogen and engery? also removes player temperature, why, also the text says it includes a clock, no clock to be found on my end