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Mar 25, 2002, 1:35am

I saw this guy in AWTeen make a clock using the rotate command, and it was
pretty accurate. I decided to try myself. I can get the second hand right
(since its 1RPM so I just enter "create rotate 1 0 0") but my minute hand
moves too fast and the hour hand is practically two hours ahead of VRT.
FOr the minute hand I did 1 divided by 60 (since that would theoretically
take it 60 minutes to revolve once), got 0.0166666666666667,but thats too
fast, and for the hour hand I divided that by 12 and got another long
decimal. Still the last two hands are inaccurate.

Does anyone know what the RPM numbers are to make a pole rotate once every
60 minutes and once every 12 hours? Or does anyone know the math I need to
do to find the numbers?


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Jekyl and Hyde...or Android?

Mar 25, 2002, 2:33am

I used what you said and it works exactly like it should. Maybe you should
make sure it's synced and put sync at the end of the thing.

Also, make sure you've put all 3 numbers up there so that the x y and z axis
are up. Put them x and z to 0.

Mar 25, 2002, 3:39am

ok, i found a problem now... try this:

create rotate -0.00139 0 0 sync

I dunno why this works and the other doesn't... but it does so... oh well
:-P

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Mar 25, 2002, 10:14am

Here's from pretty acurate stuff

HOUR: create rotate -0.00138888888888888888888888888888889 0 0
MINUTE: create rotate -0.00833333333333333333333333333333333 0 0
SECOND: create rotate -0.5 0 0

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Mar 25, 2002, 1:59pm

wha? Your second hand would be doing a revolutione every 2minutes then?

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Mar 25, 2002, 6:32pm

Oh I was using sync too
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Mar 25, 2002, 6:33pm

Yeah thats what I got...its just I cut them off at the 6th or 7th decimal
place (to conserve cell space)
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Mar 25, 2002, 7:02pm

Part of the problem is that the computer is synched to GMT time, not
VRT, so if you're using plain old poles to make your clock hands, it
will always be 2 hours off. When AW had their clocks in those Test
worlds, their hour hand was modeled as slanted to account for the 2 hour
difference.

If yer looking to make a GMT clock, here's the numbers I used:
SECONDS: 0 0 -1
MINUTES: 0 0 -0.0166666666666
HOURS: 0 0 -0.001388888888

[View Quote] > Yeah thats what I got...its just I cut them off at the 6th or 7th decimal
> place (to conserve cell space)
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Goober King
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Mar 25, 2002, 8:32pm

does anyone know a way i could make it sync to vrt time? If you layed it
down so it was facing upwards you could always rotate it two but no one
really does that. If someone had a way if the clock was on the wall with
poles (or if you knwo of a better object to use)

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Mar 25, 2002, 10:53pm

The only way you could get it to synch with VRT time was if you modeled
the hour hand yourself. Not only would have to model it so that it's
slanted properly, you'd also have to make sure the pivot point is in the
right place. Because of this, there are no objects (that I know of,
unless someone from AWTeen makes an hour hand) that would make a good
hour hand. But for those who want to take a stab at making one be sure
it looks something like this:

/
/
/
./

With the . being the center point of the object. Also, the slant of the
hand would have to be more than 45 degrees, but less than 90, making
pole2m04 a bad choice (that rotates around the wrong place anyway). I'd
tell you to check out the Test worlds' hour hand object, but apparently
it has disappeared (just a triangle now)! :(

[View Quote] > does anyone know a way i could make it sync to vrt time? If you layed it
> down so it was facing upwards you could always rotate it two but no one
> really does that. If someone had a way if the clock was on the wall with
> poles (or if you knwo of a better object to use)
>
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Goober King
Adds "hour hand" to the *long* list of requested objects...
rar1 at acsu.buffalo.edu

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