Hello Developers,
I’m Woodx and I’d make the tutorials in a very short and a simple way
In this tutorial, you will get to know how to do a compass in less than 25 lines of scripting
This uses basic maths and achieves this, I read many tutorials to make a compass system, but I couldn’t find any easy tutorial, so I decided to make my own tutorial if there isn’t one which I needed already
Step 1 Knowing the simple framework of this
In Roblox, orientation exists of 3 vectors
(x,y,z)
Now here, the left/right is the Y-axis.
Now imagine I am looking at 0 degrees, and the max in Roblox is 0-180, and 180-0, it can also be -92,95,125,-179 but it won’t exceed 180 or -180
So if you got -180 or 180 it means 2x perpendicular to the origin, which is South
And same way for other directions
Step 2 Making the UI
It’s just a textlabel in my tutorial
You can make your UI, however, to keep it very simple, I made it like this
Making it work
Now add a local script in your text label text button or textbox, now this is the script
local rs = game:GetService("RunService")
local part = Instance.new("Part")
local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()
local tableofp = {
["2"] = "South",
["1"] = "West",
["0"] = "North",
["-0"] = "North",
["-1"] = "East",
["-2"] = "South"
}
-- Example : (-2)* 80 = -180 = 180 degrees of north = south
local function showdirection()
part.CFrame = game.Workspace.CurrentCamera.CFrame
local direction = tableofp[tostring(math.round(part.Orientation.Y/90))]
script.Parent.Text = direction
end
workspace.CurrentCamera.Changed:Connect(showdirection) -- the function runs when the mouse is moved to change the direction, however, if the game bugs or the function wants to run itself without any firing, it will also get fired
That’s it, if you wanna hire me or support me, check the Support Me page.
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If you also wanna make the North East, North West, and South West/East it is simple, but I’m not telling it in this tutorial as the Title says it’s a basic system, not an advanced one.
