I received a request to make a static version of an animated watch face because animations runs their watch battery down too fast.
I didn’t really think about this before, but it sort of makes sense.
Is this true? Do animations run the watch battery down faster? If so which animations? IE… Is it the animation sequence or math animations?
And… what else will run a watch battery down fast?
Thanks in advance. -Beth
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The answer is yes . Of course a face with more stuff running about us going to us a bit more power . All the watches are very different and it is best to do your own tests .
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One thing both @russellcresser and I have found is that you can often achieve very similar results to an animation with a couple of static images or shapes and some maths hoodoo expressions in the X, Y and rotation properties that will be a lot less resource intensive.
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Thx Rob. I was wondering about that. Good to know.
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The X and Y on the ball may look scary at first and it’s a bit longer in V3 than V2. Since V2 there is a bug in the #Dsm# Tag which makes it glitch back continuously so I replaced it with ((#DNOW#/1000)%60).
OK, still not the easiest t wrap a head around. I think I have a breakdown of it somewhere.
Edit: Ah, It’s from V1 but covers the basics:
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Nice example.
for making the bounce look even a little bit more realistic, you could change the linear movement in Y direction into a half sinusoid, for example like this:
(133-13*abs(sin(3.142*((#DNOW#/1000)%2)))+((#DNOW#/1000)%10)*1.9)
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It was actually an a real life example to replace an animation of a ball moving through a triangular channel where the animation sequences were just too big to fit on a watch. Way back when I had not been at it for long and @russellcresser and I started helping each other out a bunch.
He provided many of the tourbillon images for my gubbins watch and links to a few of the sin/cos/tan topics here to help me work out the cog movements. I helped him out with that triangle wave to replace the animation.
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This is fantastic.
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