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fitzchivalrik / compass

A Final Fantasy XIV Dalamud plugin. Shows a monodimensional compass to augment/replace the minimap.
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Make "show only cardinals" not disable the center marker #6

Open skylord-a52 opened 3 years ago

skylord-a52 commented 3 years ago

I want the compass solely for an easy way of orienting myself -- I'm not really interested in the navigational aspects, so I want as little cluttering up the compass as possible. Since not everything is filtered yet (I know it's being worked on!), the only way to get rid of everything is to use the Show Only Cardinals button. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, because it means I don't have to press all the filter buttons, and I don't have to worry about new icons being added to the game that will then have to have filters patched in. Even if/when all filters are added I plan to keep it on because that's all I want.

But that removes the center marker, which makes it hard to tell exactly what direction I'm facing, making the navigational aspect harder to use. Can you add an option to not disable the center marker when Show Only Cardinals is enabled, or just make that the default behavior?

Thanks for the really useful plugin!!

fitzchivalrik commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the feedback.
Unfortunately, in the current design, the centre marker is tied to the 'draw-icons-loop' (its just the player marker from the mini map repurposed). When deciding whether to treat the centre marker separately or together with all the other icons I opt-in to not treat it as too special (preloading it also resulted in the wrong icon if modified by penumbra).
I never intended for the compass to not show any icons but added 'Show only Cardinals' per request as it was easy to exclude all icons and does not have a measureable impact. Unfortunately I do not see myself working on this in the near future.