This face challenged me to revisit maths I had not used for many years…
Took a while, but eventually the cobwebs cleared (with Google’s help) to figure out how to describe the rotated ellipses in x & y terms.
Nowhere near the complexity of other faces that I have seen, but I subscribe to the less is more principal.
The “middle” ellipse (minutes) is the easy one.
It is just a variation of orbiting an element in a circle around the centre, as already described in the thread referenced above. (A circle is a “symmetrical” ellipse).
TLDR:
x = x′ cos θ − y′ sin θ
y = x′ sin θ + y ′cos θ
Plugging the X & Y formulas for the first ellipse (substituting #DWFMS# with #DWFSS# to get seconds) into the equations above for 45° rotation, yields the following for the seconds ellipse:
But the hours do show? That is very strange indeed.
Do other Facer watch faces with digital time work on your watch?
I checked the design and noticed that for some reason I had ‘glow’ (10) effect turned on for the hours.
I doubt if this will be noticeable on a black background, but since hours was the only field showing on your watch, I enabled ‘glow’ for minutes and seconds as well and republished the face.
Please sync to your watch again and let us know if this makes a difference.
If not, the Facer team will need to assist; there is nothing special in this face for the digital time; just plain tags without any conditions or calculations.
I noticed another difference between hours and minutes/seconds, so one more try…
The Hours was a Digital time field with the minutes tags removed, while the minutes and seconds fields were text fields with the appropriate tags inserted.
I have now replaced the text fields for minutes and seconds with digital time fields, modified appropriately, all without glow effect.
If this works, it points to a possible Facer bug with text fields not showing on the Huawei Watch 2.
Please sync the face to your watch again.
Yes, I only have one “Atomic Clock” published which I updated. You should have the right one.
I think it is time to call in @Facer_Official to help.
I am not sure if mentioning them here is sufficient, but all the detail regarding the problem is in this thread.
If a support call is required it might be best for you to log it since I cannot reproduce the problem without a Huawei Watch 2 (works 100% on my Galaxy Watch and no other user has reported a problem).
That was the first thing I checked; hours, minutes, seconds are almost at the top. Only the orbiting “electron” dots are above.
The face is open for inspection if you want to take a look yourself (Rocketship icon from JCS Atomic Clock).
@adriano I assume you have not had any contact from Facer regarding your issue with this face.
As a very last resort, I have now moved the digital time fields to the very top, with seconds and minutes even above hours (which does show on your watch) and updated it again.
I still hadn’t time to look at your face. But now, I look at it and it works!!!
Only AM/PM text is still missed, but it doesn’t matter to me, I use always 24H format.
Thanks for the feedback @adriano. Glad it is working for you at last!
Still very strange, since there was nothing obscuring the minutes & seconds fields/layers and it worked 100% in the Creator and on my and other watches.
Might still be worth logging a support call with Facer for this.