Craftable Compass SE

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Intro

This mod adds a compass that you can craft and equip. I made this mod for my personal use. I really wanted something like this, and when I couldn't find it I thought I'd try and make it myself. After a lot of tutorials, and a few headaches, here it is. Hope you enjoy :)

UPDATE 2. 2

2. 2 now uses spell conditions to get heading, rather than polling, which is more stable, makes the compass needle update faster, and is more performance friendly. The compass now uses all 32 needles, without a performance hit.

How to craft

You can find the compass under the Dwarven section at any forge.

To craft you need:

A filled common soul gem

A gold ingot

A Dwarven metal ingot

A roll of paper

You can also buy it from Calcelmo in Markarth. It's added to him via script so you shouldn't have any compatibility issues.

Notes on the compass

Version 2. 0

In 2. 0 I added an MCM, so you can more easily configure the compass. I also added the option to choose compass hud opacity based on your physical compass conditions. By default, the compass hud is turned off if you don't have the compass. It's set to 50, or half visibility if you have it, and 100, or full visibility if it's equipped.

The compass isn't like a normal compass. It is magical, not magnetic. So the needle will point to the direction you are facing, not north.

How it works is each needle position is actually a different object, and the mod will equip the right needle for which direction you are facing.

You can set the max positions to 8, 16 or 32. More on this below under MCM options.

When you equip the compass, your game sound effects will be muted, unless you disable the Auto Update feature. This is because while you can set an object to be equipped silently, you can't set it to be unequipped silently. This is a bug with Skyrim papyrus. So, if I didn't do this, each time your needle position changes it would play the un-equip sound. Super annoying. A mystic drone will play when you equip the compass, and a ding will sound when the needle changes position. You can turn off the sound fx in the MCM.

The compass uses the extra slots 59 and 60 and is positioned for the unarmed animation.  The mod will automatically un-equip the spell or weapon in your right hand when you equip the compass, and will re-equip said spell or weapon when you un-equip the compass again. You can leave the compass equipped, but it's not recommended unless yo