Of course, if you need to hide one or two details in a round clock, and show them in a square clock, it’s very easy.
But:
- When these details become very numerous;
- There is a bug — as soon as you enter Facer Creator, you can see parts for square watches (although initially always select round Samsung Galaxy Watch4 (Black));
- There is a bug — when publishing, you can see the watch with all the details (even those hidden for different watch shapes), and it really spoils the appearance of the created watch face;
- This tag can be used not only for simple object hiding, but also for more complex dials, making it a very difficult tag to use (for example, hide moving objects, or hide multiple positions at once, or something else (you can think of a lot of things)).
And then this tag becomes complicated and incomprehensible — you need to take into account everything, and at that, not to make a mistake in anything yourself. So its use would be very useful, but if only the developers would fix all its errors.
I have already written a ticket about the bugs to tech support. But they haven’t answered me for quite a long time. I understand, there are a lot of tickets and all of them need to be answered in time. That’s why I will wait.
However, in the Facer Community posts I’ve seen, people also write about #ZISROUND# tag failures quite often, and these posts are very old. So I have to think that developers either can’t fix this problem (though it’s not difficult) or ignore it, probably not considering it a “first necessity” (though it’s quite an important problem).
Yes, I have tried that tag but was not convinced it works correctly. I stopped using it. But then again I do not have a square watch to test it…
It’s a pity, I don’t have a square clock either, and I can’t fully test the work of this tag either.
But at least in Facer Creator the #ZISROUND# tag is definitely very inconvenient because of its bugs.
And this tag is something I would really like to use. I even have 2 dials already (1 finalized, and 1 almost finalized), but I can’t publish them because of these bugs.
I have an Oppo Watch and will gladly test Square and Round for you but am away on holiday . You can DM me with a link to your Draft and I will see what I can do after the second week of June .
In the mean time have a look at this .
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These are Facer Creator bugs that they don’t fix.
In your example it is the same as I wrote. When you go in, you immediately see not a round shape, but a square one (before selecting any hours).
And the #ZISROUND# tag also has a bug when publishing.
I suppose it will work fine on the clock itself. But how people will see it when viewing the clock on the Facer site is what I’m wondering. Will it be seen with the bug, or without the bug?
Precisely because I don’t know that, I’m in no hurry to publish such dials yet, and I’m either doing other dials or other things.
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This is one of my dials with the #ZISROUND# tags:
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Looks good to me . I will try it when I get home .
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So what, I’m allowed to publish this dial? So, on Facer site, among other people’s dials, it will look normal, without bugs?
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You will find despite comments on Square Faces they get remarkably few Syncs and very little feedback . It really is just a box you have to Check during publication .
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They get surprisingly little synchronization and feedback, probably because the Facer developers aren’t addressing these bugs.
After all, dials that can be correct in any shape are the most excellent dials.
Actually, I created this post even, not because of any problem of mine, but because I want Facer to pay attention to this problem, and for Facer to develop. I often make any suggestions for improvements, and fixes.
The solution to this problem will be useful for everyone. After all, such dials are very pleasant. And it doesn’t even matter if it’s an analog dial, or a digital dial, or any dial at all. The important thing is that it will be correct in all forms.
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If you go PRO you get statistics on the syncs . You get a Pie Chart which shows the Model numbers of the watches that have synce your face . Those Stats showed me that there are very few Square WOS Watches on the planet . There are None in America as far as I know . There is no Jail Break for them as far as I know . From what Facer have just said they are going over to WOS 6 towards the end of the yesr . Prehaps they are too busy getting that ready to fixe some of the Bugs that ghave been arround for the last 8 years .
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Even if there is little synchronization for square watches, the preview shows the beauty of both shapes, and even people with round watches notice it.
And these people immediately mentally increase trust in the author - they start to think that the author approached the creation of the dial with all responsibility, and made a high-quality dial.
This will increase synchronizations also for round watches (maybe not much, but still will).
And developers should realize this. Only then they will realize that these #ZISROUND# tag errors should not be ignored (or put in the last place). All the more, I think, they are not difficult to fix…
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No . Absolutely . The same with AOD . My principle issue is the number of Zero Effort Faces that can be published a day . I think we can expect big changes when Facer makes it’s faces available to WOS6 . All faces then will have to be ported to WFF which is very different from how they are published right now .
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Yes, Wear OS 6 will probably bring a lot of changes. But until you wrote about it, I didn’t even know it wasn’t out yet.
I didn’t know because my last watch was defective (which, incidentally, was due to the Wear OS update) and I hadn’t gotten a new watch yet, so I didn’t know about the latest version of Wear OS.
However, even if Wear OS 6 brings a lot of changes, I believe the #ZISROUND# tag errors are website errors. And Wear OS 6 is not going to fix them. That should be handled by Facer developers.
But maybe Facer will indeed get a lot of new things in Wear OS 6 (hopefully).
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