Any way to move the mini map (compass) in Hud UI ?

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Any way to move the mini map (sometimes referred to as compass) in Hud UI ?
I’ve tried putzing around w/ a few of the HUD and miniMap/Compass files but I think it always snaps to the Top Right of the “screen”.
Any insight from mod gurus would be appreciated.

Thanks, gpk

P.S. From a bit of googling this question was left hanging from an unfinished D2 UI mod.

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I was looking through the pet menu and pet management options today and managed to find this too.

\records\ui\hud\positioningwindows\hudwindow_compass.dbr and
\records\ui\hud\positioningwindows\bkup\hudwindow_compass.dbr

Before looking at the dbr contents I would have thought hudwindow was the deal, but the actual alignment is top right, so I guess they are using the bkup copy?

This command may help:

C:\gdunused\modsbig\masterread\records\ui\hud>findstr /s /i align *
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Yeah, I thought either of those files would be it, except no, not based on my testing. The game uses the non bkup version, but it is actually the position for the compass toggle button(and the loot mode toggle button strangely enough).
Changing windowScreenAlignmentX to Left(from Center) moved those two buttons left, while the compass didn’t move.
And using notepad++ didn’t show any results when I searched for hud_compassfloating, which appears to be the name of the texture for the small version of the compass

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Then it is probably the same as the deal with the pet windows - hard coded in Grim Dawn.exe. I found the dbr files I was looking for only referenced in a single place: the game binary file.

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It’s a real shame it’s not moddable, it limits my ability to play in triple-wide nVSurround and since nvidia for some stupid reason removed the ability to have custom resolutions in fullscreen, I’m playing double wide res on 2 screens to be able to see minimap better.

And I also use Notepad++ w/ it’s file+folder+sub-folder search capabilities, very handy.

P.S. Another little tip old windows users/devs would know, in a tree control pressing * Asterisk on a branch expands it fully, recursively to the end. For List View controls , CTRL+SHIFT+PLUS autosizes columns to content.