FAQ - WatchAwear
Watch Hand Zip-Packs are entire sets of matching watch hands compiled in a single, compressed or packaged file. These files are .zip files.
Typical Watch Hand Zip-Packs will include:
- Hour Hand
- Minute Hand
- Shadow Hands (optional)
- Second Hand (optional)
- Sub-Dial Hands (optional)
- Buttons (optional)
- Misc. Hands (date hands etc.)
A Watch Hand Zip-Pack should include at minimum:
- matching minute and hour hands
- second hand should be included when possible.
Use the shadows just like hands, only with a little offset and reduced opacity.
To use these, you must open the zip file after download. Any good file manager should be able to extract a zip archive. I use ES file Explorer, but there are many others. Just extract the files to whatever folder is convenient.
To use the hands in Watchmaker
- click the add (plus sign) icon and select Image.
- Navigate to the folder you extracted the "Watch Hand Zip-Pack" to and pick one.
- Resize to what ever is appropriate and put the appropriate tag in the rotation field. Most commonly:
{drh} for normal 12 hour hour hand
{drm} for standard minute hand
{drs} or {drss} for discreet or sweep seconds. - Repeat steps 1-3 for the corresponding shadows and position them behind the hands offsetting their position in the X & Y axis settings.
You just have to size them identically to whatever size you've chosen for the hands.
written and contributed by: +Chris Chastain
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