Setup - step by step

If you're a beginner and prefer a more simpler layout, go here:

• Go to Options > BASIC

All functions are still accessible.

Most seen on customers screenshots:  Text not fit properly!
Different screen resolutions results in different text sizes. You need to adjust the Compass size to fit the text inside the textplate:

• Go to Options > Edit > Size

• Resize till text matches textplate horizontally

• After resizing, use Text height buttons to center the text vertically
  Video tutorial

You can change the content or the format of the text hud info:

• Click the Text Hud, to display full information or just boatspeed

• Click the time numbers to display timeformat 00:00 or just seconds

You can change the Boat/Windinfo text (upper right) - click on it:

• Off

• Boatname and Windinfo  (in Racemode with Race ID)   (Default)

• Boatname and description  (in Racemode with Race ID and Racewind details)

By default a Heading number is additionally displayed above Compass. Click on it to scroll trough: 

• HDG

• Speed

• OFF

If you have your Compass at the bottom of the screen, you may want to swap the above HDG text with the Telemetry text:

• Go to Options > Edit > Swap Text

Choose from 12 colors for the infotext

• Go to Options > Textcolor

No matter what Textcolor is set, the Boat infotext turns Green, if Boat-Racewind is detected. If you want to change that:

• Go to Options > Channel,  enter  col

Adjust the opacity of your Compass to your liking:

• Go to Options > Edit > Alpha

Choose from 3 Needle Styles:   Individual,  Generic or Just a needle

• Go to Options > Edit > Needle >>

If its hard to distinguish between Aqua and Green Color, you can select a darker Blue color:

• Go to Options > Channel > enter "blue"
  (Default: factory boat colors)

You can enable enhanced colors for the bowsail and the mainsail displays

• Go to Options > Channel > enter "scol"  for the Spin/Wing/Gennaker

• Go to Options > Channel > enter "mcol"  for the Mainsheets
  (Default:  factory colors from boat)

You can select 3 styles for the AWA numbers:   black, yellow and colored numbers on outer ring

• Click on the scala to change or to switch them off.

Whats AWA?

Those colored Numbers help to trim your sails to that number

• Click on them to show / hide

If you use a channel number for your boat, WindCompass need  the same number to send wind or chat commands to your boat and receive chat commands on that channel number as well.

• Go to Options > Channel,  enter your boat channel number

Note: Factory default is 29000

You can choose which name the Shouter shall use:

• Click the little gear next to the Megaphon-icon

• Click 'Name' to toggle between your first legacy or display name.

By default the Shouter uses local chat.
Shouter and Whisperer are controllable by Gestures as well. (Find them in your WindCompass folder.)
For this, set channel numbers here. Channel numbers must be different. 

Note: Channel numbers and name are permanently saved and survive a Reset

WindCompass can remember your last Position, in case you need a TP to your last position after coming back from a "normal" crash (not a disconnect crash)

• Go to Options > Position

The Smart Mode takes care of many automatic functions and detections.

If you want to do all by yourself, you can change that:  Click the  T  of the word 'SMART'

By default the Camera works only when sitting in boat. Change this behavior here:

• Go to Options > Channel,  enter   sc     (Sit Cam)

If you don't use the Camera at all, you can completely deactivate it here:

• Go to Options > Channel,  enter   cam

Note: A free Cam-Gesture set is provided in the WindCompass folder.
Camera availability is stored in the Boat database (for example Camera is disabled for the B22 LTE)
Camera status will be sent to Boat Info Huds to adjust its text height in Birds Eye View.

The NAV settings are adjusted for the most cases. Normally you don't need to change anything here. 

The NAV auto-advances to the next mark when getting within a range (default 50m). Set other range here:

• Go to Options > NAV > Range

By default the next mark is shown by the red vertical beacon inworld. You can change that here:

• Go to Options > NAV > Beacon
  Make sure, your Viewer supports RLVa. This is needed to prevent the world map from opening each time NAV advances to next mark.

If that Hovertext on the beacon origin is in the way of view, you can move the beacon origin:

• Go to Options > NAV > Origin >>
  move to  Ground level / My Eye Level / Altitude (50m)
  (This 50m is changeable in the NAV child prim description -> Edit Linked)

NAV shows a Region crossing alert, optional with sound. You can change settings here:

• Go to Options > NAV > Cross|Sound