Watch Face not giving the vibe I'm looking for

Edit: I should have saved the old one but below is the current iteration.

I made this watch face with the intent on making it a cyberpunk theme. I pulled most of the colors from a screenshot from the cyberpunk game hacking screen.

I really like it but it’s not giving me the cyberpunk vibe I’m looking for.

Any ideas?

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When I ask Night Cafe AI to make me a picture of a Cyber Punk City this is what I get . Fair enough . For me the elements on your face are too small . You can make them quite large and do not be scared of letting them overlap . Use a font like Venus Rising on some of it . Get some more of these colours in . But you angles and over all style are great . Enjoy .
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I like you binary counter for me it should work the other way , no problem but the flashing seconds progress is a bit annoying . I will have a look at your inspectable . You might have come up to our Time bug in facer .

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Sorry I am more engineer than designer, so I cant suggest anything valid for the “vibe”.

Even before looking into it, I warn you. If you plan on publishing that face, reconsider the description without mentioning any brand names like “Calendar week style inspired by the Nomos Glashütte Tangente neomatik watch”.

For the seconds progress bar better running in preview, I would suggest using (((#DNOW#/1000)%1)*120), or (((#DWFSS#/6)%1)*120), rather than anything with #Dsm# (which has been broken in preview for more than year now).

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Nice one Peter . I was trying to work out how to use #DWFSS# for the scrolling . @CosmoIV I would loop your Background Glitchy animation . Users might miss it in the first 2 seconds .

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Yes, and do something with AOD

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Bigger features and more red and blue, love it. That font is very similar to the font I’ve used on a lot of my faces and I was trying to get away from it for this one.

Yeah, I was trying out left to right but it doesn’t look right. The second bar is a little much, I have a couple ideas on something more subtle.

That description is from an old face that I used as a base, it will not be the description when I publish this one.

I didn’t know it was broken, thanks.

I would like to don’t his but I don’t want it going constantly. How can I add a delay?

I usually try to keep it simple to not kill the battery, but I’ll try to add more to keep it interesting.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

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@CosmoIV The only thing you can do with a Gif Sequence when you no longer want to see it looping is to send it off screen X pos or Y pos with a wake time conditional . Opacity does not work on a Sequence.
So you could send it away after 6 seconds .

$#DWE#<6?160:555$

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Good idea. Maybe I’ll just have it loop a few times within the sequence.

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Maybe add some depth and 3D effects:

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Needs neon.

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@tom.vannes
That’s cool, how did you do that?

@Rator
Good idea.

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The text, I just used a second element, make it black and offset by 1:

Screenshot 2025-07-07 at 06.54.01

I used these 2 elements in the background:

This shadow rim (size 328, 328):
RND3_thick

then behind that, this one at opacity 22%

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@tom.vannes
That text depth effect looks so good, I used it on all of the text and some of the lines. I will be using this effect a lot, thank you.

I’m worried I might have too many layers going on now but it seems to run ok on my galaxy watch 3.

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For the text, you should be OK with layers.

What costs a lot of processing power, is if you have lots of blinking stuff, like the heart and steps icons, moving objects.

Like this sample watch face: it was not smooth on my GW6:

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I see. Thanks for that info.

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Here’s a template file you can use to create the neon effect in photoshop. Just copy the layer style and paste it onto the layer you want the effect on.
NeonEffect.psd (706.1 KB)

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