http://www.alange-soehne.com/en/timepieces/family-zeitwerk for personal use. We made hours and minutes in digital format in Galaxy Watch Designer. So far everything is perfect, but being a mechanical watch, the people of A. Lange & Sohne have found the solution of some discs for display. I would love to be able to do the same thing for added realism. The disk that displays the hours is not a problem, but the minutes should be made of two disks: one with numbers from 0-5 for tens of minutes and one with numbers from 0-9 for minutes. Can you help me with a tip how could I do this? I have to sau that I don’t know anything about coding. I work as a graphic designer, so drawing it was not a problem and therefore I am looking for a solution to my problem in GWD.
create two vertical images of your numbers one 0-5 and one 0 - 9
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Then use a tag to change the Y placement up or down based on the mins tag
10 * ([m] / 10) for tens
and
12 * ([m] % 10) for mins
You’ll have to play with spacing and such but it will work.
I thought it did for me but it is hard to test. You may have to use greater than equal to >= and less than < to get it to stay if it rounds off the division.
Try to put expression like (([m]%10)-[m])*32/10 into Y coordinate of the tenths strip and expression like 0-([m]%10)*32 for minutes strip. Replace 32 with pixel distance between two numbers in the strip. To better observe if it works you can replace [m] with [s]. so it will tick in preview each second.
Btw. if you used digital clock component with ICU format mm over a background with empty split window field, and used monospaced font, nobody could tell the difference.
Hi,
it is possible, just clarify how should it move. jump each hour or move smooth. where should it point at 6:00? At the number or at the line in between?
It took a while to find the center of rotation and the right angle to start with (I think center of rotation is around 180,153 and one hour section is 15°). Then I could make it work with hand image, that is rotated using expression like
Thanks a lot for your response, but unfortunately doesn’t work. at 00 and 12 hand is still pointed at 1 o’clock. if you want, i can send you the .gwd file with everything in place. while I draw this in illustrator, i found that the distance between numbers is 14.8 degree angle. like I said, if you want, give me an e-mail adress an i’ll send you the gwd file. Thanks.
Thanks, I had my fun playing with it, but this kind of gimmick watches is not to my taste. I prefer more traditional setup, be it digital or analog. Dont like to learn new ways of reading time after almost 40 years of using the common two.
