Clock face
Hands and ticks, or rings filling with the time.
- Kind
- Layer · Sound and time
- Script name
clock- Cost to draw
- Light
- Blend
- Light costs no extra pass

Clock
| Setting | Kind | Starts at | Range and notes |
|---|---|---|---|
Stylestyle | choice | Classic | Classic, Minimal, Dots, Rings |
Hands and tickscolour | colour | #f4f6f8 | – |
Second handcolour2 | colour | #7ce695 | – |
Faceface | colour | #141415 | – |
Face opacityfaceOpacity | number | 45% | 0% to 100% |
Sizesize | number | 42% | 5% to 100%Share of the screen's height |
Thicknessthickness | number | 1× | 0.3 to 3× |
Glowglow | number | 35% | 0% to 100% |
Fontfont | font | Outfit | For the numbers and the date |
Numbersnumerals | choice | 12, 3, 6, 9 | None, 12, 3, 6, 9, All |
Second handseconds | on or off | on | – |
Sweeping secondssweep | on or off | on | Off, it ticks once a second |
Show the datedate | on or off | off | – |
Hours aheadoffset | number | 0 h | -12 to 14 hFor another time zone |
From a script
Every setting above can be changed by the scene's logic, by its key. Say the layer is called Clock face:
scene.set("Clock face", "colour", "#ff8a5c");scene.animate("Clock face", "opacity", 0.5, 2);import { scene } from "motion";scene.set("Clock face", "colour", "#ff8a5c");scene.animate("Clock face", "opacity", 0.5, 2);◆On Scene Start
ƒSet Layer SettingTarget is Layer
TargetClock face
Parameter Namecolour
Parameter Value
Used in
The example scenes with a Clock face layer in them. Each picture is the whole scene, not the layer alone: open one to see what the layer does in it.
What every layer has
Besides its own settings, every layer has its opacity, blend, placement, quick effects and an effects stack. They're listed once, on the layers page.
Notes from the community
Written by creators and checked by the docs' editors. Not part of Motion's official reference.
Snowfall