Skyrim-style compass in the UI

does anyone know how to create a Skyrim style compass in the new UI?

 

In theory:

• You have a bar representing Xº, let's say 360 for completeness.
• You know what rotation of your player corresponds to north, let's say 0º.
  
• This then means that the left side (t = 0) represents -180º, and the right side (t = 1) 180º.
• (Because the marker can't be in two places at once, one side will "actually" represent (-)179.9999999...º.)

To find t you can then simply do something like: t = (player.transform.eulerAngles.y / 360f + 0.5f) % 1

Once you have t, you can use it to find the correct position for your marker. For example:

Code (csharp):

1. float centerX = Mathf.Lerp(bar.anchorMin.x, bar.anchorMax.x, (player.transform.eulerAngles.y / 360 + 0.5) % 1);

Adding the bar and marker should be fairly straight-forward from there I think. =)

Hope that helped a bit, cheers!

 

This is an awesome solution, however it only works for north. Say if I were to have a set of enemies, and a little red dot marker for each of them, how would I adjust this to point at them?

Most of what you have there is fairly simple to reverse engineer. Use mathf.lerp to find the point between the two x anchors. The point itself? Get the bearing, divide by 360 to bring it down to a 0-1 range. Not sure why you add 0.5 or get mod 1 though!

I know this is a bit of a necro, but im not seeing much else anywhere