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Billy's Digital Compass Bearing Reader
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Mod Type: Character, Equipment, Mechanics
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27 Jan, 2015 @ 10:39am
13 Dec, 2016 @ 2:42am
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Billy's Digital Compass Bearing Reader

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This mod adds a digital compass (displayed on the right side of your pre-existing compass) if you have the compass in your inventory and use your compass hotkey.

It stays for as long as you hold down your compass button, and disappears shortly after releasing your compass key.



This mod was inspired by another "digital compass" mod out there, but this one works "better" in my opinion.


I made this because I sometimes tend to mis-read the actual compass.


This is not a vanilla compass replacer, it simply displays it as text on the right side of the compass.


file has been signed, bisign provided and key provided.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\107410\382401791

key file should be in folder Keys, and pbo+bisign in Addons
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Elite Autiste  [author] 4 Jul, 2018 @ 10:08am 
_bearing = (getdir player * 17.777778);
Elite Autiste  [author] 4 Jul, 2018 @ 10:02am 
Probably, the scripts themselves are the ones in plaintext in one of the featured screenshots.

on top of my head, i'd guess all that's needed is changing out the lines:

_bearing = getdir player;
_bearing = round (_bearing);

I goues you could alter it by multiplying the number aquired. (_bearing = getdir player;)
by changing ( round (_bearing); ) to also include multiplication before rounding. i.e. multiply by 17.777778
patton446 4 Jul, 2018 @ 6:51am 
is there a way to incorporate mils bearing for use in say artilery?
Tobjv 13 Dec, 2016 @ 2:20pm 
Yeah, thats fine. it should download to the !workshop hidden folder option for everyone who will be wondering where it is.*
Elite Autiste  [author] 12 Dec, 2016 @ 5:50pm 
It should be signed now and there should be a bikey in a Keys folder in wherever.

the system has changed so much that the mod doesnt download into standard structure anymore, only into workshop (for me)

it used to be downloaded into arma 3 root directory @modname
Elite Autiste  [author] 12 Dec, 2016 @ 3:25pm 
I'll look into it, things have changed a lot since i uploaded this
Tobjv 12 Dec, 2016 @ 2:35pm 
Great mod, it is so hard to see the compass bearings for me. Any chance you can upload the Bikeys though? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Publisher says on how to do it.
~Nise~ 30 Sep, 2015 @ 7:21am 
Fair enough mate, i was new back when i wanted a toggleable rnage finder, now im used to the ingame scale and using the ingame scope range finders still use this though, people always just use the gps, but i prefer this simply because it keeps me using the compass
=GR=GrayWolf 2 Aug, 2015 @ 8:22am 
ha ha ha ... ok Very Strange. I just logged on and now it works. The indicator is halfway over the actual compass but it works.
I appreciate the help again and sorry for the trouble.
Elite Autiste  [author] 1 Aug, 2015 @ 3:17pm 
For the script to initialize the following conditions are required:

1. Must press down compass key if not, no digital compass shown.
2. When the key is pressed down, it checks for if you have a compass in your inventory, and only calls for variable to show itself if you actually do have a compass.


There's basically 2 different checks for compass in this script, one that looks for the graphical overlay itself, and one that looks for the item named compass in your inventory.