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spinning compass
It would be nice to have a spinning compass, can it be done?
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The compass arrow does change direction as you do, if that's what you mean...though I seem to recall it gets East and West the wrong way round...can't remember though - never use it.
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You would control it with some random mechanics and have that relay abloe to be broken (hence why you'd use the relays rather than animations)
No example really, so thsi is off the top of my head and might not be best
confuse compass trigger/effect/attack/spell/ -> 2 x Relays (one activates the other deactivates a moment later) -> Counter -> four convert in dungeons (one dealing with each compass state) + final relay that targets your inital two relays
So once the effect happens the compass keeps spinning (ie changing to different versions) until something comes along to stop it - which you would do by altering the coutner and breaking the loop
No example really, so thsi is off the top of my head and might not be best
confuse compass trigger/effect/attack/spell/ -> 2 x Relays (one activates the other deactivates a moment later) -> Counter -> four convert in dungeons (one dealing with each compass state) + final relay that targets your inital two relays
So once the effect happens the compass keeps spinning (ie changing to different versions) until something comes along to stop it - which you would do by altering the coutner and breaking the loop
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i had a moment to check that out, it seems the swap global only works if i face north, and that all the compasses only face north, there is no east west or south pointing/working compass?
i think that was my problem, can someone check and confirm that so to stop me from losing my direction
i think that was my problem, can someone check and confirm that so to stop me from losing my direction
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I don't know what way I'm going here , but I worked on this compass thing, and you can't swap the misc_compass for a cloned compass, not even a cloned object. I had to clone the bitmaps for each direction ( it is a cloned bone) that is no longer a compass, and action_swap those bitmaps to get the spinning effect. The problem is you can't swap a misc_compass with your cloned (bone) compass, however, you can swap the cloned compass for the misc_compass. I'd like to know what makes the compass point north, maybe it's a magnetic action I need here damn compass, better off looking at moss on a tree
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