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  Second hand of a clock

  Posted by Stu Pond on January 15, 2007 at 12:13 pm

  I’ve just posted a similar question in the Cionema 4D forum but have learnt I may need to do this in AE so thought I might ask here too.

  I want to animate the second hand of a clock as it ticks. Rather than create a sweep hand I would like the hand to click a sceond at a time in realitme.

  Obviously this means rotating the hand (6 degrees I m ake it) every second, can anyone suggest an expression rather than keyframe it?

  Cheers,

  stigWeard

  Stu Pond replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Julian Sixx

  January 15, 2007 at 3:42 pm

  Hi

  value + Math.floor(time)*6 // for the second hand:
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  Stu Pond

  January 15, 2007 at 7:15 pm

  Brilliant!

  Thanks very much for your help – it works a treat. I realise I could have done this using differing frame rates etc, but this seems much more elegant.

  Sorry for my appalling spelling in my first post – this is why I do pictures : )

  Thanks again!

  stigWeard

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