Blog Post 4 - Clock Follow Up

During this session, we created a functional clock that reacted with real time live data.

We started with some simple text and a background before developing and adding the time.

We then went through an added the time using the appropriate nodes.

It wasn’t too difficult to understand. Although the nodes were a bit tricky, once we went through it it made sense.

As a final task, we were to then add an icon that would change with temperature.

This finally lead to this. The image would change when the temperature number was between preset values. This was above 10 and we set images for between 0 and 10 and under 0.

For our follow up work, we were to create a clock face that functioned using a tutorial.

This was the first patch that created the rendered clock. This was a lot of fun and really got me used to how values work and using the time nodes. I found it simple thanks to the work we did in class. I did struggle to understand why dividing and adding from minutes to hours made it work but I just accepted it.

The only trouble I had with the second part was getting the slices to appear which I figured out in the end. I made sure everything was scaled but I would like to go back and tidy up the Photoshop a bit. It was a bit rushed due to thinking the patch would take a lot longer.