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Jaggies on Clock Hands

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February 2, 2012 9:18:54 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

Anyone have any ideas on how to stop clock hands from being jaggy as they rotate on a DesktopX analog clock?

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Reply #1 February 2, 2012 9:45:59 PM
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It might be different Jim but can you use image files for the hand such as  png or bmp? I have noticed simalar with sysmetrix when I used the program to draw the hands. I had better luck with png hands.

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Reply #2 February 2, 2012 9:54:29 PM
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I am using png files. Still getting jaggies. Tried adding blur, helped a little, not much.  Thanks JC.

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Reply #3 February 2, 2012 10:02:04 PM
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hmmmmmmmm, you adding blur to the hand itself and are you using shadows? Just curious. 

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Reply #4 February 2, 2012 10:05:45 PM
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Blur to the graphic. No shadowing. Tried shadowing to...no good.

 

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Reply #5 February 2, 2012 10:07:47 PM
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If you're talking about straight line clock hands, I once used some glow of the same color of the clock hands to create a faux antialias/smoother edges. For a white clock, I had used a white glow, settings: Sharp=5 Darkness=1000 OffsetX=0 OffsetY=0.

eta: That's the built-in DX glow, not part of the image.

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Reply #6 February 2, 2012 11:28:40 PM
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A little better, but it didn't completely do it.

Made the hand twice as thick too. I guess I could make it smaller, then add glow.

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Reply #7 February 3, 2012 4:24:34 AM
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Anti/alias is supposed to cure that but from what I've seen, in smx anyway, is that when the hands move the image changes. In a straight line the pixels line up nicely but at angles greater or lesser than 45 degrees the pixels form a sort of irregular stair step which creates the jaggies. I never use the hands from smx, always create a .png for them. Works fine if the image is say 3 to 4 pixels wide but the second hand, 1 to 2 pixels wide always has jaggies as it moves. I've tried shadows but the shadow moves with the hand and doesn't maintain the proper lighting angle. I don't know of any work around for it.

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Reply #8 February 3, 2012 5:14:07 AM
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I can't really tell if it's much of an improvement, but the current clock hand images being used are vertical or horizontal, and then DesktopX rotates them. What if you start with a diagonal image to begin with? It still has 'jaggies', but they look a bit different.

Combined with the 'shadow' feature it seems to look better still, but again, maybe isn't really that huge an improvement.

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Reply #9 February 3, 2012 5:16:57 AM
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Or you could use a set of aliased hand images at various angles and swap them in depending on the angle of the hand. You might get away with using about 8 or so. If you were extreme, you could generate 360 images, and use one for each angle. If you have hand moving 'smoothly'...you'd need a few more....lol

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Reply #10 February 3, 2012 6:10:22 AM
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I'm working on one that will eliminate the problem. No hands. lol

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Reply #11 February 3, 2012 6:50:53 AM
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heheh karma for the best suggested solution

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Reply #12 February 3, 2012 8:03:55 AM
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I'm working on one that will eliminate the problem. No hands. lol

Jim has already done that: https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/desktopx_widgets/1759/

That clock had balls!

I think he just wants to talk about "jaggies" becaues they sound like "juggies", two of his favorite things.

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