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I ended up making this thing by accident. I was reading the tut on wood texture and used the wrong invertion ( rec to polar? ) I looked at it and thought , sundial!
So, I got it to this point and when I make and add the piece that creates the shadow, it looks real cheesy. Any ideas?

If you have an idea for the general shape of the sundial's hand, I'd start there and make the hand itself as detailed as you can.

make a copy of it once it looks good, and use layer rotate/zoom to turn it the direction you want.

Once it's in the right position, duplicate the layer again, fill it with black, and rotate/zoom that until lt looks like an appropriate shadow position.

Duplicate the shadow layer and apply a gaussian blur, then use a linear gradient with mode set to transparency to "fade" the fuzziness (should be fuzzier the farther the shadow is from the hand of the dial.

Haven't tried that, and you'd probably want to add a step to make the hand look like it has a little bit of thickness (maybe as simple as using the line tool or outline object), but that's how I'd approach it.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll keep working on it.

What do you want it to look like?
Post a pic.

is this the look you were trying to get

See if this works.

Thats nice, thanks.

I already really like this section of the forums

It's nice to see collaboration in action.