Compass Navigator Pro 3 is a complete and powerful UI system commonly used in adventure, RPG and world exploration games to show destinations and points or areas of interest (POIs) as well as text indications.

Compass Navigator Pro 3 is compatible with projects using version 2 and adds the following new features and improvements:

- New feature: "Area of Interest". Improves performance when using hundreds or thousands of POIs.

- New feature: "Scan" effect with customizable options in inspector and new APIs.

- All events are now UnityEvents and can be wired in the Compass inspector

- Many performance optimizations and other improvements across the asset.

** Upgrade from Compass Navigator Pro 2 for just $15 **

UI Features Included:

- Compass Bar.

- Mini-map with fog of war and full-screen mode.

- Radar system with accurate ring distance.

- Target and off-screen indicators with anti-overlap system.

- Beacon/heartbeat effects.

- World scan effect.

Other Key Features:

- Easy to use: drag & drop Compass Navigator prefab to your scene and you’re ready to go. Enable and customize features from a centralized inspector. Add POIs (points of interest) to any location or gameobject adding the Compass Pro POI component. You can customize specific options for each POI.

- Complete with powerful options: every component comes with many extra options to give your UI a professional look, from curved compass bar to cone of view and LUT/color grading controls in your mini-map and much more.

- Interactive: the system comes with many game-ready features such as interactive mini-map (allows user to click or hover on POIs, enter full-screen map mode, zoom/pan around).

- Event system to react to location discovering (check manual), icon appearing/disappearing on the compass or mini-map, mouse over/clicks on minimap icons, ...

- Area of Interest: let the asset focus on POIs that are within certain distance and avoid performance issue when handling thousands of POIs!

- Split Screen support: the architecture allows using multiple compass navigator instances in the scene.

** Compass Bar **

Includes 14 ready to use designs: rounded, angled, celtic black and white, 4 fantasy, 6 sci-fi or just assign your own art to the inspector. Plus:

- 4 world-mapping modes: frustum, screen, 180 and 360 degree view.

- Customizable appearance: add your own art, ajustable position & size, supports bending (curved bars), edge fade out effect, alpha, automatic fade in/out.

- Supports cardinal and ordinal points plus procedural degree marks (ticks).

- High resolution icons with customizable behaviour (smooth fade in/out and scaling, visited vs non-visited icons, black and white variations).

- Can focus on one POI, making its icon always visible in the compass bar.

- Optional distance text under the POIs.

- Option to automatically hide the compass bar if no POIs are visible.

- Add your own icons or use the free high quality icons included in the asset: cave, city, dock, dungeon, forest, lighthouse, mine, monolith, palace, tower, generic.

** Revealing Text & Effects **

- Show optional title with location tips (above/below) and distance in meters for the centered POI in the bar.

- Show animated text under or on top of the compass bar when discovering new locations.

- Can play audio clips when locations are discovered. 5 high-quality sound clips are included.

- Can use two icon variations per POI, to differentiate unexplored and explored locations.

** Mini-Map **

Efficient mini-map system, uses smart snapshots to capture map only when needed. Highest performance.

- Includes 12 ready to use styles + custom: torn paper, solid box/circle, 6 fantasy, 3 sci-fi variations.

- Configure size, style, alpha, zoom range, camera snapshot mode and projection, zoom range, icons size, etc. Includes buttons for zooming in/out, maximize.

- Support of LUT textures for unlimited color customization.

- Ability to show the real world view or a custom user map/texture.

- Can zoom/pan the contents.

- Full screen mode.

- Map icons with optional text overlay and cardinals.

- Can click on mini-map. Example included to add/remove POIs by user.

- Optional cone of view draws the fov of the player in the mini-map.

- Optional animated circle effect when POIs appear on the mini-map.

- Optional circle around POIs in the mini-map to illustrate area of influence or radius of search area.

** Fog of War **

Occludes the non-explored areas in the mini-map. Option to automatically clear the fog as the player moves.

- Clear entire fog areas as player enters them based on fog volumes added to the scene.

** Radar **

Option to toggle the mini-map into radar mode which draws a procedural radar with accurate ring positions based on desired distance.

- Customize rings width, color, opacity and scale distance in meters.

- Optional scan animation effect with sample presets.

** Screen Indicators **

- Displays on overlay icon with optional title & distance over visible or in-range POIs.

- Option to display off-screen indicators. Anti-overlap system that stacks indicators on the edges to avoid cluttering.

Extras:

- World Scan effect: executes one or multiple simultaneous visual scans anywhere in the world, revealing and activating Points of Interest (POIs) to the user, displaying them on the mini-map and compass. Includes event support, enabling specific actions to be triggered when POIs are detected in this way.

- Light Beacons! that briefly highlight a POI in front of your player by rendering a vertical beam from the POI to the sky.

- Heartbeat option: plays custom audio clip at variable interval rate based on distance.

- Supports multiple scenes (eg. existing POIs can preserve their visited state between scene changes).

Compatibility:

- Compatible with Built-in, URP and HDRP pipelines.

- Compatible with Unity 2022 and Unity 6, including Render Graph.

- Easy to extend or understand. Uses Unity UI system.

- Uses Text Mesh Pro.

- Documented API. Demo scene and manual included.

Upgrade Notice:

- This version includes some breaking changes vs old Compas Navigator 1. If you're upgrading, please follow the upgrade instructions in the online guides.

Related assets:

- Compass Navigator Pro 3 is included in the RPG Adventurer Bundle.

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