[request] Redesign compass graphics.
It seems that look&feel of compass is not obvious to me, Too small and not familiar design comparing to ordinal compass. Would you please you NIANTIC change design to something like REDACTED scanner's look or arrow surrounded by circle.
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They just released the update. Give it time, yeah? Could be the compass they gave us is a test and they are seeing how it works while watching feedback. Plus I don't think they'd think to include something from a system they are planning to retire, that being Redacted.
Honestly I think the compass is fine as is. It always points towards north which is the only info we need really.
Weird. The compass looks different on my Prime install. (Orange part is red for me.)
No, the new icon is barely acceptable in size and location in the UI, if they make it like it was, it is a complete nuisance.
I would like to remove the compass icon from my UI
I like the design fine enough, but its location isn't optimal. I think it should above the player name. Up out of the way.
Color indicates behaviour:
Red = Static Compass, Orange = Dynamic Compass. Tap to toggle static / dynamic.
Hey, who did flag me ? This is serious discussion isn't it......😥
Anyway I will check this feature and see what to do now.
Color: I confirmed a color of arrow changes depends on setting of compass as @NineBerry said. There are no discussions here.
Size of arrow: The optimal size may be varied by a person each. And the APP would change its resolution/extent by dimension of screen each also. I won't discuss about this size issue any more as long as the size of arrow stayed in current size.
Functionalities: Sorry @InvestigateXM , I don't mean to discuss compass function itself and I agree your opinion. The compass itself is working perfectly.
Then , what we do ? I agree the opinion as @HonestEl said, we had better wait for a while and see other AGs' opinion and expect NIANTIC to improve scanner APP as later release is
Thanks for insightful comments and information.
Best,
Al
Isn't the "player arrow" supposed to be a compass too? Why do we need an extra one?
The player arrow doesn't show north!
The main function of a compass.
Player arrow is an "avatar" of ourselves and direction of it is always our direction. "compass" is different from that and always point to "north".
In redacted mine is always locked at the same direction of the compass.
Does your device support compass and gyro ? If no, dynamic compass feature may not work,
I believe it can, maybe not so good...
In prime the two arrow are mostly point same direction (not precisely) but sometimes the Avatar just went crazy.
Is the avatar supposed to be like the one from pokemon and aways face the way I'm walking? I've thought it was another compass.
Whoa ... It would be better to raise another request or bug feedback I think....
Yes,it's supposed to point in the direction you are facing.
But that hasn't worked properly in the old Ingress and hasn't worked properly now.
Should be a optional thing. Fixed at North or facing.
I don't see any advantage of it facing where I'm looking. Maybe if it was a little person like the others games. I like how they make it in HP, with the compass being the circle of the range area.
came here to complain about the compass design, it looks like they accidentally gave us a compass from the harry potter game.
"I don't see any advantage of it facing where I'm looking."
That's to tell you whether you are going towards the portal or not. Very useful if you don't instantly know where north is in the real world. Google Maps does the same (with a sort of headlights effect emanating from your avatar).
@starwort yeah, now I see. I'm just too used with redacted being still all the time. And since I don't use prime while playing outside I just assumed it was messy/bugged.
In contrast to most I actually quite like it the size it is and where it is, any bigger and i think its going to be too cluttered, and the positioning isnt an issue for me either.
Though i must hold my hands up and say that ive only ever needed to use the compass function in Ingress a handfull of times in 4 years of play, so to me its just a vary rarely used add on, so that may **** my good will towards it
Guys, please start another discussion if you want to talk about compass function itself. My interest is mostly for design of the shape of compass arrow and I'm very satisfied with function. Thanks.
I like the compass design, colour and position. It's clear, simple and does exactly what it is supposed to do.
It's an arrow that points north...
I'm fine with that too. Maybe put it a circle to better contrast.
But would be cool have something like this:
You're literally the only one worked up about how it looks. The "discussion" is over.
Not everything in Ingress is about you. Let it go, man.