Doublevil

If you want to edit your compass icons, contact me, I am making a tool for this. It is not released yet, but I can give you an alpha version and instructions to use it. ;)

You have to edit the file "map.swf" located inside the "Skyrim - Interface.bsa" data file of your Skyrim installation folder. To do this, you may use the "BSA extractor" tool available in Fallout Mod Manager (FOMM). Then to visualize the icons in the map.swf file, I suggest you use "Flash decompiler trillix". But I think you can't edit the icons directly with this tool. You may have to use something like "SWiX". Then you can turn your extracted folder back in a BSA file using the tool "BSA creator" available in FOMM. It produces a Fallout BSA though. You have to manually edit the first bytes of the result file to match the ones of the original file. GOOD LUCK!

You'll have to edit the file "interface/map.swf" and delete what's drawn for the shape #145 with the tool "SWiX" (or something else if you know another one).

I've done this. I am currently developing a tool with a graphical interface to disable what you want on the compass, and plan to release it as soon as it's done (should take 2 days, but as always in the marvelous world of IT, you can multiply this release time by 3). Contact me if you want early releases of the tool. If you want more details about how to do it, here's a little plan I made for myself:

This is obviously in the "interface" BSA file. The crosshair image may be in a .gfx file. You can open these files using this: http://www.modsrus.com/wiki/doku.php?id=dow2:formats:gfx.

Oh thanks! The link did not work for me at the time I posted. All icons used by the compass are indeed in the interface/exported/hudmenu.gfx file. That's great news!

I am currently trying to get rid of these annoying location icons on the compass. I want to keep the compass but I don't want it to show me the nearby locations. I found the icons were in the map.swf file, so I tried to replace some by blank elements, but in fact it seems that the compass uses another resource files, as my modification only succeeded to erase the location icons on the map itself. There is no other swf file that seem to contain map icons. Do you think it is possible that the compass location icons are in the .gfx file? Is there really no way to access it?