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The course dial in stock SH3 is notoriously hard to get to a precise course. People created mods to make much larger dials that slide out from the side of the screen. To set course to specific degrees. But those are long ago, and I cannot remember their names. I guess they should still be somewhere in the downloads section. Most likely in the legacy downloads.

Normal setting course with the compass dial is not accurate anyway. When the helmsman thinks he's near the commanded course he thinks his job is done and goes for a cup of coffee until re-commanded. If through small deviations the course changes he will not correct for as time goes by.

An alternative method is to set a waypoint on the map in the proper direction. This isn't exactly setting a course, as the helmsman steers to a specific point. If it is too close then due to the turning circle the uboat might approach the waypoint at a slightly different course. Unfortunately in stock SH3 the cursor for placing a waypoint does not have a usable course dial. Iirc, it only shows the 4 cardinal directions N,E,S,W. Again, over the years others have made mods to correct this. For example, GWX 3 gives you a compass dial that is 180 degree opposite to normal. That way you align the desired degree mark with the waypoint line and the proper course is set. This can be any angle, but in practise it won't be better than halve of a degree.

For me this was not good enough, as I wanted this course-cursor for all map drawing tools. So I made my own modification for this:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=1308

It is intended to be 'installed' with JSGME. Which I suspect you do not have yet. It is very advisable, as it can remove the mod again very easily as it keeps it's own backups. Pretty much any mod expects to use it thesedays. But you can manually replace the cursor icon files (and .cfg) in the right place of the folder-structure.