Compass Navigator Pro 3 v5.0 (19 Mar 2026) introduces a comprehensive and high-performance UI navigation system designed for adventure, RPG, and world exploration games. It features a compass bar, mini-map with fog of war, radar mode, screen indicators, beacon effects, world scan effect, and a full-screen scrollable map. The update includes a new "Area of Interest" feature that optimizes performance when managing hundreds or thousands of Points of Interest (POIs). A new "Scan" effect with customizable options in the inspector and new APIs enhances visual feedback. All events are now UnityEvents, enabling seamless integration via the Compass inspector. The asset delivers significant performance improvements across its components.
Key UI features include:
- Compass Bar with 14 pre-designed styles, support for curved bars, edge fade, procedural degree marks, cardinal and ordinal points, and customizable icons (including cave, city, dungeon, forest, lighthouse, etc.).
- Mini-map with 12 ready-to-use styles (torn paper, fantasy, sci-fi), LUT-based color grading, real-world or custom map support, zoom/pan functionality, full-screen mode, and optional cone of view or animated effects.
- Fog of war that occludes unexplored areas, clearing fog as the player moves into new regions.
- Radar mode with accurate ring distances, customizable width, color, opacity, and scale, plus optional scan animations.
- Screen indicators with optional titles and distance text, anti-overlap system to prevent clutter, and off-screen visibility.
- World scan effect that reveals and activates POIs across the world, with event triggers for game logic.
- Light beacons that render vertical beams to highlight POIs in front of the player, and heartbeat audio that plays at variable intervals based on distance.
The system is fully compatible with Unity 2022 and Unity 6, including Render Graph support, and works with Built-in, URP, and HDRP pipelines. It leverages Unity UI and Text Mesh Pro, features a documented API, and includes a demo scene and user manual. The asset supports multiple scenes, preserving POI visited states across scene transitions. A version upgrade from Compass Navigator Pro 2 is available for $15.
2026-03-20 00:00:00-update version:Compass Navigator Pro 3 v5.0 (19 Mar 2026)
