Physical Props - Clock and Counters

This prop contains a Clock and Counter module along with two Buttons. You can imagine it as the typical 'bomb' prop with time and a countdown. A director will typically want a lot of coverage for the short of tense sceen that this prop is used in. This means that the prop needs to be reset to the same state for each take. This is where the 'Set Wide Net' comes in.

The Clock Module has events for:

• Start - starts the clock running forward.
• Stop - stops and holds the clock at the last time.
• Clear - clears the display.
• Set Time - uses a 'datetime' format to set the time, this is important because other clocks use the same format and may be able to display a richer version, including date for example.
• Set Speed - effectively set the time for a second to pass, so the clock can be made faster or slower
• Brightness - sometimes its important to have the brightness of the display match the lighting set-up, there are 0-7 levels of brightness.

Event Examples

Given that you have a clock named 'Clock1' here are some example events. Of course you could have a series of clocks with different names and send similar events to these, you might want to do this if you have a series of clocks in a scene, each with a different world time.

    
        {'e':'Clock1', 'd':'stop'}  // stop
        {'e':'Clock1', 'd':'start'} // start
        {'e':'Clock1', 'd':{'datetime' : 'Fri Feb 02 2034 16:47:00'}} // Date Time Fri Feb 02 2034 16:47:00
        {'e':'Clock1', 'd':{'rate' : 100}} // 100x faster
        {'e':'Clock1', 'd':{'direction' : -1}} // Clock Reverse
        {'e':'Clock1', 'd':{'brightness' : 7}} // 7 is the brightest (for digital displays)
    

The Counter Module has events for:

• Start - starts the counter running forward.
• Stop - stops and holds the counter at the last count.
• Clear - clears the display.
• Set Count - sets the count to a specific number.
• Set Direction - count forwards or reverse, e.g. a countdown.
• Set Steps - the number of steps to take in each direction.
• Set Rate - sets the rate at which the counter is updated.
• Jitter - sets the randomness of the time between updates.
• Random - displays random numbers with a start amd stop range
• Brightness - sometimes its important to have the brightness of the display match the lighting set-up, there are 0-7 levels of brightness.
• Hexmode - display in HEX of Decimal
• Glitch1 - glitches in brightness
• Glitch2 - glitches in brightness and display distortions

Event Examples

Given that you have a counter named 'Counter1' here are some example events. You might like to consider the difference between 'step' and 'rate'.

    
        {'e':'Counter1', 'd':{'target' : 'CounterValue', 'startvalue' : 2000, 'direction' : 'forward', 'step' : 1}}   // Start Counting FORWARD at 2000 
        {'e':'Counter1', 'd':{'target' : 'CounterValue', 'startvalue' : 4761, 'direction' : 'forward', 'step' : 1}}   // Start Counting FORWARD at 4761 
        {'e':'Counter1', 'd':{'target' : 'CounterValue', 'startvalue' : 4761, 'direction' : 'reverse', 'rate' : 10 }} // Start Counting REVERSE at 4761 10x faster rate 
        {'e':'Counter1', 'd': 'stopcounter'}  // stop counter
        {'e':'Counter1', 'd':{'target' : 'CounterValue', 'startvalue' : 'current', 'direction' : 'forward'}}    // Start Counting FORWARD at Current
        {'e':'Counter1', 'd':{'target' : 'CounterValue', 'startvalue' : 'current', 'direction' : 'reverse'}}    // Start Counting REVERSE at Current 
        {'e':'Counter1', 'd':{'target' : 'CounterValue', 'startvalue' : 'current', 'direction' : 'forward', 'step' : 10}}  // Start and count in 10 steps FORWARD at Current
        {'e':'Counter1', 'd':{'target' : 'CounterValue', 'startvalue' : 'current', 'direction' : 'reverse', 'step' : 10}}  // Start and count 10 steps REVERSE at Current