Firstly let me say thank you. This is a very easy to understand tutorial. I have a question about the battery dial version.
I have done everything that you have suggested but have noticed an anomaly. When testing the indicator with time lapse, at 4 mins to midnight, the dial hand returns to the upright 12 position rather than remaining at empty and then going straight to full.
To explain it using your pictures, the hand is placed in the dial at the 12 o’clock position. The ±150 work perfectly, but at the 4 minutes to midnight the dial goes from empty to 12 o’clock position and sits there until midnight and then moves to the full position. Have I done something wrong?
well i have read these tutorial 1000s of times and they make less and less sense to me, sorry but making a dial for battery life is not as easy as this tutorial makes out and ive tried every day for months
No I cant agree on any of these being simple, you base the tutorial on the fact that some people have previous knowledge of the coding etc ,some maybe most do not have previous knowledge and as such are beginners , maybe a beginners guide would be more suitable with step by step instructions , the whole of facer can be quite confusing to a beginner things such as #BLN# maybe simple to those that know but a beginner will have no idea what it means or what its for
I cant even get the pointer to align correctly with full empty or 50 % when trying to create a battery dial, ll this before i even attempt to get the dial itself working
Yes that is super simple and whilst I appreciate your efforts you are Somewhat missing the point, I can create a face without any trouble at all however what I want but can’t add are battery dials amongst other things so a Basic more simple tutorial on dials would be appreciated, the one u have is complicated in my opinion when I follow all the steps u list I still have issues hopefully u saw my picture
When you initially import your dial-hand image it should be set to the 12:00 position.
The red tick marker (0% battery) is -90 degrees from the 12:00 position and so this becomes its starting poistion.
The hand has to rotate 180 degrees from the red marker (0%) to the opposite white marker (100% battery) so we multiply the Battery Level Number (BLN) by 1.8 (180degrees/100 percent).
It can seem very confusing at first I agree, but persevere.
Firstly you should understand that Facer sees the top point of a dial/circle as 0 degrees.
Next, you need to work out the angle position of your markers for 0% battery level and 100% battery level.
In my example above, the 0% marker (red) is -90 degrees from the top of the dial and the 100% marker is +90 degrees from the top of the dial. This means in total the hand has to rotate 180 degrees (90 degrees from -90 to 0, then 90 degrees from 0 to +90)
Next, the battery is represented as a percentage, which means it has 100 x 1% increments.
To work out how far the hand has to rotate for each 1%, we divide the total rotation amount (180) by 100 which gives us 1.8 degrees (180/100=1.8).
So we now know the hand has to rotate 1.8 degrees for each 1% increment of the battery level.
Now we can put the formula together:
START ANGLE POSITION + (BATTERY PERCENT NUMBER * 1.8)
or (-90 + ( #BLN# * 1.8) )
I can’t imagine Facer want to turn people away from creating faces just because they can’t make the more complex elements themselves so maybe some of the experienced people on here should start a service for those who can’t/won’t code. There could be a repository of stock modules like dials, gauges, basic animations etc.
A nice idea but i can tell i don‘t have that much time left to run such a service - beside of creating watch faces, writing instructions, develop banner … i do have a life beside facer… I run a whole family and do have a job
actually you are very much mistaken , im happy to put in the effort, however when i sit their for a month( that a lot of effort) not being able to create something even after reading various tutorials not only on here but various other places and im still no closer to achieving what i want then i am bound to become frustrated.
Yet you feel like you know me and know what i want , what a big man.You carry on sat behind your keyboard criticising people
Well, okay. Then i apologize myself for my words. For sure i don´t know you. We all had to put in a lot of effort to learn about all that tags and formulae - and it is not a well paved track. And i am far away from perfection either - my math Knowledge isn´t the best.
