I’ve been using GPlates to map my Fictional planet and it’s tectonic History (inspired by artifexian and loosely following guidelines while also implementing my own “expertise” with using Gplates) problem is, recently when changing my .grot file or when trying to fix any problems with the .grot file, my sim will just break, sometimes as small as just moving my plates halfway across the map, other times my plate just stops being identified as a plate and when I check my Reconstruction Tree it shows that they just don’t exist which essentially means no movement, I dont know why or how this keeps happening and every time I fix it it happens again two to four time steps later, what am I doing wrong I don’t understand.
For reference this is what my reconstruction tree looks like in the program:
And here is the Plaintext file:
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600 2450.0000 -52.0137 48.5961 -174.3140 200 !
600 2530.0000 -10.0826 -82.7379 -107.8581 200 !
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600 2550.0000 -59.7027 102.5334 -182.7229 000 !
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600 2900.0000 -37.3527 -76.4142 -31.2951 000 !
600 2900.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 500 !
600 3000.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 500 !
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700 2900.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 600 !
700 2900.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 500 !
700 3000.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 500 !
800 0.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 700 !
800 1.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 700 !
800 2350.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 700 !
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800 2900.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 600 !
800 2900.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 500 !
800 3000.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 500 !
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501 2800.0000 -8.1856 -96.7141 -27.9285 000 !
501 2850.0000 37.4056 -84.1496 -14.6922 000 !
501 2900.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 000 ! Microcontinent Split
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601 2280.0000 8.1115 163.3400 -63.2964 700 !
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601 2290.0000 -63.2844 75.5042 -173.147 000 !
601 2290.0000 2.6732 167.2816 -57.6381 000 !
601 2300.0000 1.8920 170.3562 -53.0917 000 !
601 2350.0000 8.8195 3.3438 37.3263 000 !
601 2400.0000 3.8215 -23.9642 17.4154 000 !
601 2450.0000 90.0000 0.0000 0.0000 000 !
any help would be much appreciated.