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But if the Northern tip is obscured by the light gem you know by process of elimination, where North is.

 

Not in every case. Look at the example I posted (your pic, I think). Would you be able to tell which way you were facing? You would have to readjust your viewing angle, which is both annoying and requires you to pull yourself out of the game for a minute (at least for me).

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Not in every case.  Look at the example I posted (your pic, I think).  Would you be able to tell which way you were facing?  You would have to readjust your viewing angle, which is both annoying and requires you to pull yourself out of the game for a minute (at least for me).

For sure. :) If one tip is colored red, to denote north, and the other three are not colored then that would indicate to me that north is straight ahead.

 

When we're playing we'll learn these things. Might take a short time on the first play through, but that's part of the gaming fun. :)

 

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a)The easiest, quickest and best looking solution would be to have a separate gem and compass like T2. The gem and/or compass can be removed from the HUD by the player (they are both completely unecessary gimmicks after all)

 

The second preferable is to have a gem in a compass housing which doesn't tilt up and down - tis could still be prerendered with bitmaps.

 

c) The real pain in the ass and complete waste of time and resources would be to have the gem in a 3d compass housing which tilting along with the player.

 

Ok, we need to get this cleared up once and for all. I agree with what oDDity has said above. As I see it, we have basically two issues here.

 

1. Should the compass tilt.

 

2. Should the compass be combined with the lightgem on the HUD like T3, or should it be an inventory object like T1/2.

 

We seem to have about four people against tilting and three or four in favour of it, with at least three people who would like the compass to be an inventory object.

 

I personally don't like the tilting on the main HUD, though if we made the compass an inventory object, then I wouldn't care whether it tilted like T1/2.

 

So how do we decide this? It's a bit of a mess at the moment, and voting for Oofnish's lightgem doesn't solve any of these problems...in fact it becomes pointless until we get this sorted out.

 

Problem is, these two issues overlap. I support a combined lightgem compass UNLESS we're doing tilting, in which case I don't. So I'm not sure how to set up a vote.

 

I think we've pretty much heard all the arguments for and against, so unless anyone has a totally new idea, here's what I suggest:

 

http://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=794&st=0

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1. Should the compass tilt.

 

2. Should the compass be combined with the lightgem on the HUD like T3, or should it be an inventory object like T1/2.

I don't think that this is an issue for voting. I already said that the compass will tilt. So the only question open is if it should be an inventory item or not.

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I don't think that this is an issue for voting. I already said that the compass will tilt.

 

Just because you said it and some people agree makes it so? There are just as many people who don't agree. We never came to any conclusion in the threads, which is why I proposed this now.

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