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FLB Sale's big compass, later added as stock feature to GWX 2.1 onwards and planned for NYGM 3.2 onwards is a must for manual targeting, but there were two things that annoyed me when using it:
1) The 1 degree markings were cluttering the compass too much for my taste,
2) The inner wheel -representing your U-Boat bearings- was too confusing as it also had the N-W-O-S labelling, which shouldn't be there.
This mod addresses that, and also gives a new, more historic look to the compass. It simply consists of a new set of graphics for the existing slide out compass. Since only the graphics are replaced, the functionality remains exactly the same and no incompatibilities are caused with other mods. The new graphics can be used will all mods the older compass was already compatible with.
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The outer wheel (rotable) shows the current situation of the earth's magnetic North and correspondly, all the rest of bearings. You can select a new course by clicking with left mouse on the outer wheel: A red line will appear (Which you can drag to the desired course) and once you let the cursor loose, the Boat will come to that new heading (As long as it is advancing of course).
The inner wheel (fixed, will not rotate) represents your U-Boat heading and bearings. O is the bow of your U-Boat, 180 the stern, 90 starbord, 270 backbord, and so on. Your current course therefore will always be marked in the outer wheel by the 0 in the inner one.
A very interesting use of the new graphic set is to get quick and accurate true bearings (i.e. bearing of a target from your submarine but related to the true North, not to the bow of your U-Boat) by simply observing the corresponding bearing in the outer wheel. For example, if you are seeing a target through the scope at 45 degrees, and your U-Boat is heading 90, you just look up 45 on the inner wheel and see that it matches 135 in the outer one. 135 is the true bearing of the target you are seeing. This is quite helpful for plotting.
IMPORTANT!
The divisions are: each big mark (10, 20, 30, 40 ....) 10 degrees, but each small one is 2 degrees, not one. That was also like that in real compasses, and helps avoiding cluttering too much the compass and making it difficult to distinguish the proper bearing. To select one of the grades that has no mark, simply mark with your cursor exactly between the two other marks. Selecting courses with an exactitude of 1 degree is easy, just remember that.
/////////////// 3.- HOW TO ENABLE/DISABLE ///////////////
JGSME ready, drop it into your "Mods" folder and enable as usual.
FLB Sale for the original idea, none of his work has been used here, as the graphics were created from scratch.
Me, for the rest of the job.
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