Spinning Wheel Conundrum

I'd scrap that download and build your own spinning dial. Here's a quick tutorial that shows how to do so and it should be more manageable.

I also show how to find the ranges.

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/499bf91e-6cbd-4469-b08a-611c01fd89e8/review

Update: Mystery solved. I subtracted 1000 from wheel. Then, with the 12 wedges I divided 1000 by 12. Each result range ended up being 83.33, so 0 to 83.33 and 500 to 583.33 for result 6. Because the wheel spins clockwise, I had to put the results ranges in reverse in order to have them sync with the numbers on the wheel. 

Glad you figured it out. 

Tom, 

Thank you for such a clear and informative explanation! I have a much better understanding of how dials work after watching your simulation! Best, Amy

Thanks for your tutorial! Following your instructions, I have built my own wheel using the counter on a line motion path and a stop button to pause the timeline, which then displays a layer based on the value of the variable. How can I remove the stop button and have it so the wheel comes to stop on it's own (like a real wheel would operate) and land on a random value each time? Cheers! 

You could create a second counter that counts from 1 to 5 seconds. And then pause the dial when it gets to 5 (or whatever number you choose)

Hi Tom, I know you could do this in your sleep, but can you break it down for me into steps? First I create a number variable with a value of 0. Then I create a trigger so that when the user clicks the spin button that variable starts to count? This is where I am getting stuck- how do I do that? Then after that, do I add another trigger that pauses the timeline or pauses the dial? If you could give more details, that would be great. Cheers, A

Sure.

• Watch the video above.
• You'll build a second motion path timer like you did for the spinning. This timer will run for X seconds...three is probably good enough.
• Add a trigger to the spin button to move that object on the motion path when clicked. So you should have two triggers moving objects...the spinner and the second one.
• The second motion path will countdown to 3 seconds while the other one is spinning the dial.
• Create a trigger to pause when the second motion path = 3 

That's interesting. Before this project, I had never really used motion paths as triggers. I will give it a go. Thanks for your quick feedback! Cheers, A (from NZ)