"clockwerker" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:fplnrk$b35$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hello, i need to do a special clock animation. Can you let me know if my
> following method sounds right, or if i should be using a different program
> or
> technique?
>
> i'm using an image of an old clock (bitmap), it will have an hour hand and
> a
> minute hand. the minute hand will change 59 times, and the hour hand will
> change 11 times. that's 649 frames before the image starts over!
>
> If I separate the hour hand and the minute hand into separate layers, i
> will
> only have to make 70 separate images. So I was going to make 59 frames
> with the
> minute hand layer changing and the hour hand layer staying the same. Then
> i was
> going to copy and paste all 59 minute frames, but change the hour hand
> layer to
> the next hour. I was going to repeat this process till I got to 11:59.


What about this:

Have a static gif, bmp, or jpeg in one layer. Have a transparent gif on top
of that which shows the hour hand (or you could combine this with the
background). Layer a gif on top of that which shows the minute hand.

I'm not sure what software you're planning to run this in, but in HTML you
could probably use absolute positioning to achieve this.

HTH;

Amy