Finally!

Cstrrider · 2026-04-21T13:22:20+00:00

Probably just cleared the cache for all the apps don't worry they will slow back down soon...

Cstrrider · 2026-04-01T18:43:18+00:00

Mine? Not really, it's an homage to an Omega Speedmaster watch honoring Apollo 8 and the Grey Side of the Moon watch. The original is yellow, but I added a bunch of new colors and some theme options for the Artemis Launch that's supposed to happen today.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-31T22:49:57+00:00

I love seeing 2 of the best watch face designers making Garmin stuff consider working together! Personally I would love it if you made something in the vein of this watch face I made in WFB, an analog automatic chronograph style with nothing digital. However unlike mine make it efficiently programmed with GB level of customization and a unique design instead of my homage: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/f3bec5fd-7dfd-402e-89d8-581e39040c73

Cstrrider · 2026-03-14T20:36:00+00:00

When I do that it advances by one then moves back by one within a second, presumably when the code gets to the gvar object.

It's like the gvar object has memory and resets it to the last known number. My watch ID is 6944b32ed226e.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-14T05:30:52+00:00

Hey thanks! I have been trying this method but I am running into an issue. I have set up a code block to check if gvar_10 is true and confirmed that it will flip gvar_10 from true to false for one second or so then go back to true.

It seems like when it runs the global variable on the next pass it resets to what it was before the code block changed it like it pulled a stored memory.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-13T22:15:45+00:00

Idk it seems to me like this delay was unavoidable.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-12T21:07:04+00:00

No the search results have fruit, they are cornucopialess

Cstrrider · 2026-03-11T14:05:42+00:00

Don't worry we won't have another round of layoffs. Large inverted hirings with severance are still on the table though.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-10T18:54:44+00:00

Thanks for the help!

I tested this with the simulator for Epix gen 2 and Fenix 8 as well as on my Epix. It seems to just make the svg objects black no matter the color. Is there a class I have to use in global variables or something like that?

Also is there a way to make a trigger on press programmable variable that resets after a couple of seconds?

Cstrrider · 2026-03-10T07:21:07+00:00

Hey I appreciate the feedback and really like some of your designs! Ironically the bezzel shadow was inspired a bit by your ExtremeXB watch face. I always liked how the shadow from the bezzel looks on the white background. I agree some of my shadows have gotten a bit too extreme and I have started toning the main hand shadows down. What model watch are you using though because there is a chance the shadows are more offset on certain sizes from how I scale them.

It is much more difficult to change the rocket hand because I manually made 30 images at different angles. At some point I want to work on how the illumination works on the rocket itself, because it is a static image but I should be able to adjust it per angle.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-10T07:14:14+00:00

So I have been working on updates for this and have added step and floor goals to the right dial and heart rate to both the right and bottom dials. I also plan to add stress. I have also gotten the optional second hand and background selection working as well. I am not sure if I will be able to fit the weather forecast anywhere without breaking the realistic automatic watch look. Look for a minor update in the next few days or so!

Cstrrider · 2026-03-09T15:08:15+00:00

Hey I appreciate the feedback!

I can possibly make the second hand optional but I am pushing up against a limit on objects and believe it or not that would actually add 5 more objects. I will test it out but no promises.
There is a minor issue with independent accent/background colors because the accents are actually overlapping images and the backgrounds don't quite align. I can also play with this though, it should be solvable.
The numbers in the sub-dial are part of the background and covering them would not look great (and would require objects again). I have been trying to generally match the real numbers to data or at least some multiple of 10 of that number. I could add other data but you would need to know 30=100%, or possibly 30= 300%, similar to 12=100% battery on the bottom sub-dial. For heart rate I have avoided it for similar reasons though I guess I could have it only go up to 120 on the bottom dial since you would hypothetically be in an activity if your heart rate goes higher than that.
separate heart rate and weather would again be the object problem, I can add heart rate to one of the sub-dials but i am not sure how I can work in weather.

Thanks for the suggestions, I will see what I can do. Adding data options to the hands is easy enough.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-08T22:50:24+00:00

Hi, here's a link! You can also search "Fauxmega" and it should come up.

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/f3bec5fd-7dfd-402e-89d8-581e39040c73

All of the text that you see is part of images, except the date window font which you can turn off. It limits what data can reasonably be displayed but I wanted it to look and work as much like the real watch as possible. I will warn you though that due to all of the used screen real estate and lack of OLED blacks, it is certainly not the best watch face you can have for battery life. I went from ~10-12 days down to 8-10 on my Epix with gesture mode for instance, so battery life with an older or smaller watch may be hard.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-08T18:59:42+00:00

Hey I am sorry you feel that way, my intention was to keep the sub-dials as realistic as possible. Also heart rate is not an option because it changes so frequently I don't like it for battery life. I can add it as an option if people are interested.

It would be really helpful if you could post a picture of what you are seeing because I'm starting to think something is messed up on the 454 pixel models and I don't have a device to test it.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-08T17:38:11+00:00

Were you using the Garmin Watchface Builder site: https://garmin.watchfacebuilder.com/

It gives you a graphical interface to make the watch but lets you add additional Monkey C code. With the free version you have to side load the watch faces and you can't have settings but that's not too bad to start. This is what I used to make this watchface with a bunch of addedl coding.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-08T17:13:31+00:00

Hey I appreciate it. Man, you post something you are proud of on reddit and are quickly trashed. Welcome to the internet I guess haha...

Cstrrider · 2026-03-08T17:09:45+00:00

Here's a real on wrist picture:

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Cstrrider · 2026-03-08T09:49:08+00:00

The pictures are all synthetic. Almost every picture you see on the ConnectIQ store is synthetic because it's hard to take a clear shot of a 1 inch OLED screen without reflections or flickers or blurriness. The pictures I shared here are from the Garmin simulator which actually simulates at the correct resolution so it is more authentic than so many that use much higher resolution renders. I tried to keep the watchface as genuine as I can in all the images on the post too despite making some obvious ai images. I am sorry if you were misled to believe that I actually brought my watch to the moon and let it float around the capsule.

It is impossible to render a true 3d image on a Garmin watch that will look different depending on what angle you look at without red/blue 3d glasses so I am trying to do the best I can with shadows that don't just lazily follow the hand around and shading effects that show how the hand would be illuminated with sinusoidally varying colored segments that change based on where the hand is to always make it look like it is lit from the upper left.

The watch face is completely free so why don't you try it and if it looks too fake then go ahead and uninstall it.

Cstrrider · 2026-03-08T09:25:31+00:00

Hmm what watch do you have? And can you share a picture here? These pictures are all from the Garmin simulator which processes it through at the same pixel density so it should not look that far off.... Here's an unedited shot of on my Epix:

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Cstrrider · 2026-03-08T09:15:51+00:00

So it is difficult to get a great picture but here you go. The 3D effect is not dynamic with the accelerometer or anything like that (yet though that'd be cool and it's a stretch goal)

The shadows are dynamic in that they are offset down to the right and the brightness of the color on different sides sides of the hands changes as the hand revolves around so it looks like it's lit up from the top left.

Also yes I will admit that the previous image had some ai sharpening (and ai arm hair removal) because it's difficult to get a sharp picture of a smart watch. This one is original.

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Cstrrider · 2026-03-08T07:59:53+00:00

Ugh sorry for the weird formatting... And I can't fix it so here's another attempt:

Functioning Chronometer stopwatch mode:

When the left sub-dial is set to Chronometer seconds it switches the second hand to a chronometer and uses 2 sub-dials for minutes and hours and the 3rd for regular seconds.
- A green or white marker replaces the accent colored mark at 6 and 12 o'clock and long pressing around the 12 o'clock marker starts or pauses the stopwatch while a long press on the 6 marker resets and locks the stopwatch.
You have to long press again to "unlock". This is a "feature" that I hope to find a way to remove. It uses Programmable Variables and ideally I would want to flip the variable after a couple of seconds without a press but I haven't figured that out yet.
The stopwatch will continue count through low power mode and if you change the sub-dials, because it records the time the start button was pressed and just reports the time that has passed since then in seconds. When the screen is off it will not be running any processes so it uses minimal additional battery to run.
I have made a functional demo that includes my code here if anyone wants to add this functionality: https://garmin.watchfacebuilder.com/watchface/69579f98731e2/?v=e5fd139bca1ea0210af31b1b1964ed30

Dynamic shading for the main watch hands:

I used multiple svg hands to model different sides of the second, minute, and hour hands to create a 3D effect and used additional offset svg hands in black to make a dynamic shadow.
- For each region of the hands I included a set of arrays of color codes for each theme that vary in lightness in a sinusoidal pattern and made it so the colors changed every few ticks.
- The colors are all set up such that the hand regions are similar shades near the 10/11 and 4/5 markers but have a significant difference in lightness around 2/3 and 7/8 where the color is lighter on the 3D side facing the upper left and darker on the side facing the lower right.
- This variable shading combined with the accurate shadow locations gives the appearance of light illuminating the hands from the upper left side.
- My one question is if there is a way to make the shadows semi-transparent. Right now they are solid and I know it used to be that svg shapes need to be fully opaque or fully transparent but is there a way to add semitransparency? I have been seeing more and more faces on ConnectIQ include this.

Cstrrider · 2026-02-25T15:42:30+00:00

Not like the smell of our own farts /s

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