Hello everyone,
I’m opening this post with the same title as the one I was inspired by, but since it’s old, I don’t know if it was appropriate to post there:
For my watch face, I used the formulas from the last reply:
but I noticed they don’t correspond to reality.
Or rather: on the “creator” app, the phases are fairly consistent (Pisa-Italy) with the lunar calendar I find online. But, for example, while on the “creator” app yesterday I saw this phase:
As Far as I know ther should be little difference betewwen your location and Creator . Creator reports the Moon phases as per Los Angeles . Pleas make sure when you are doing tests that the date on creator time machine and your Moon phase calanders is the same . I am very happy with what I have seen so far . +/- half a day . I am in the UK .
Thanks for the feedback.
Of course, I’m comparing the watch and the creator on the same day.
I’m probably doing something wrong, I just need to figure out what
Maybe it’s all in your observation: “Creator reports the Moon phases as per Los Angeles”…
As far as I know there should not be too much difference visually of the Moon Phase observed from the planet apart from inversion for the Southern Hemisphere . Obviously there is a small Time zone difference . For me we are doing Art not Science . If you made your face Inspectable we could have a look inside at the workings .
I have had a very quick look . You have over complicated things . If you are not using more than 8 images post them into the Facer Moon Phase Layer . I assume you only want to show the moon at night . Use ISDAY . I will get back in a bit .
#DISDAYTIME# returns true or false mathamaticaly 1 or 0 . Most go for that . Toggles at SR and SS .
It’s the first thing I tried to do, but Creator gives this warning and I understood, reading on the forum, that you could no longer use the default lunar phases, so I went looking for those formulas…
Oh Dear Lord @marcomhtc . I am so sorry . I did not realise that that the Moon Phase Layer is depricated . My Profound appologies . I did not take the time to look carefully at your Formulas . We have a Moonphase tag that works . I will make a quick test and post it .
OK all the Moon Phase things are depricated right now .
I was loking at #MOONPHASE#
Gives you 0 to 7 New being Zero . Remembering that this Phase gadget shows the same phase for 3 or 4 days .
So you are using the Old Long hand formula . It is difficult to bend if you are not experianced .
We are busty doing Summer Sunshine stuff with a Visitor . I will try put some time in when I can .
I think this is the formula for your X position .
$#DH#>=20||#DH#<=8?160:555$
I am struggeling to check it because you Image is so tranasparent . I think it is intended as a filter .
Your Long hand formula Bending looks right to me .
More Later .
Hi,
You absolutely don’t have to apologize for anything, of course you do.
I’m just sorry for those who have already downloaded this face; I’ll get a few downvotes, but at least it’s free
I applied the formula on the Xs because I only want to show the moon between 8 PM and 8 AM.
Anyway, I tried duplicating the 8 lunar phases, applying the formula in opacity
$#MOONPHASE#>1?100:0$
$#MOONPHASE#>2?100:0$
etc.
but it doesn’t seem to work very well.
I also don’t understand what you mean here (Google isn’t helping):
“I’m struggling to check it because your image is so transparent. I think it’s intended as a filter.
Your long-hand formula bending looks right to me.”
I’ll wait for your help with an example, perhaps, but in the meantime, thank you so much for your attention.
So first of all your formula needs fixing .
$#MOONPHASE#>2?100:0$
Could be
$#MOONPHASE#==2?100:0$
#MOONPHASE# gives whole numbers from 0 to 7 .
So are you using Google to Translate . Some times I use Jargon and that does not translate well . Some times I type Gibberish and even English speakers have no Idea what I am talking about .
Let us deal with one solution at a time . It is important to make a series of simple tests untill we have a compete understanding of what goes on . I will send you a little test in a minute .
So I forgot that MOONPHASE is deprecated . Any way here is a test . See I always use a Filter over my Ballmoon images .
However your Longhand formulas for the moon phase are fine . Your only error was the X position formulas . You should look carefully at the Correction I made for 8pm till 8 am .
I put the night time X position in each layer of your Test and it works fine . you just need to get your moon images sorted and the themprature dismissed at night with the sam formula . Opacities inverted .
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Hello again,
here’s a new example (sorry for the terrible photo…)
Here’s an example from last night: in Creator, I have a full moon (formula $#MOONPHASE#==4?100:0$), just like it was in real life,
But on the smartwatch, the moon image shown is the formula $#MOONPHASE#==6?100:0$
It looks to me that you have still not applied the Formula I made for you for the X position of your images . Your image of the full moon is showing corectly on Creator . You have to give Permission for GPS Losation and Permissions for the weather app . I run Open Weather on my phone in the hope that it Gets the relevant Info more often .
I also installed Open Weather on my phone…
I verified that on the smartwatch, location permission is always granted to the weather, while on Facer it’s only granted “when the app is in use,” but I don’t have the option to always allow it…
Regarding the formula for location X: I’ve now corrected it to
$#DH#>=20||#DH#<5?160:0$
Thank you for pointing it out…
I don’t think you can save changes with the inspector, so I didn’t see your formula…
Anyway, at this point, this whole moon phase thing will remain a mystery to me.
Maybe if anyone cares to try installing this watch face after 8 PM, we can see if the problem is limited to me.
You are right . While inspecting someones face you can not save any changes but you can see if your sufgestion works . I will try Sync it to my Watch for you . But it is goo dto sort out as much as you can i creator . Making a decent moon phase gadget on your watch Face is not a Mystery . Check the catagory in Facer.io . But it always requires a Bit of work .
Looks good to me.
BTW sometime for this sort of stuff I change the time on my Phone rather than waiting till the sun sets or whatever .
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