Spinning background, please help

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Hi, I’m new to using facer and really need some help figuring something out. So I started today out trying to get to know the layout and the basics so I can create some cool simple faces for my fossil gen 5. I added everything I wanted on the face, designed it all and sent it to my watch. Everything worked great and looked just how I wanted for a basic face. I then wanted to make the background spin slowly (as on of my favourite faces has the effect) just to see how it works. So I messed around with it to get the speed I wanted and it centered on my central point. It seemed to work well in the preview and editor so I sent it to my watch but the background doesn’t appear at all. I can change the background colour and it changes it on the face but I can’t put my desired image and make it spin. It works fine when it is the still image but not when I make it spin.
I’ve tried changing the background to a different image, making it a seperate image layer, changing the size of image, tried different image formats, cropped the image to fit inside, analog and digital, just a blank canvas with the image and nothing else, I signed up for the pro version, sending it to my watch from my phone. I don’t know what else to try. Please help, all ideas are welcome and I will try everything recommended until it works. Thanks.

P.S, Please use layman terms as I’m new to this.

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can you share what you’re working on with inspection mode enabled? also have a look at this tutorial if you haven’t already:

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Welcome Benny!
Yes, inspection with a link to the face or else just post the expression you used to rotate the image will enable the experts here to help you :wink:

I don’t own a Fossil watch, but from reports here they seem to be fussy about Facer expressions. Expressions that work in Creator and on Samsung watches sometimes just don’t on Fossil… Can be a small thing like brackets or spaces…

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Thanks I’ll have a look at that.
The expression is $(#DNOW#/250)$.
The watch face cheers for the help. Please don’t judge to harshly as I’m just messing around with it :sweat_smile::grinning: cheers.

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Remove the $s from your expression.

$ is used for conditions in Facer.
see Conditionals | Facer Documentation

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sorry the $ were there to outline it they aren’t in the actual face. sorry for the confusion.

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This is the style I was going for with the background if it helps. artfuldodger 788 - OneVibe-SE1: Wave - watch face for Apple Watch, Samsung Gear S3, Huawei Watch, and more - Facer

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I’ve got it working now but no idea why I used ((#DWE#*2)) instead of (#DNOW#/250) can someone please explain what the difference is and where I could go to read up on stuff like this. Thanks.

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Usually you’ll want to tie your animation to the #DWE# tag which triggers animation when the watch wakes up.
Advantage of tag #DNOW# is the continuity through the whole day. This number is growing only.

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Ok thanks I think I understand it a bit better now, can I link the 2 so that it continues moving throughout the day?

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It’s simple. If you’re running an animation, you’d better tie it to a wake-up clock with #DWE#. It will always start with the clock. Like


And here the use of the tag #DNOW#

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Cool thanks for all the help, I’ll be sure to give those a read.

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Glad you got it working :+1: