Hi everyone, I didn’t know if this should be a suggestion or just a question in worldbuilding, so I thought I’ll ask here: is there a way to increase the size of the time slider?
Currently it only goes to 2 decimals, but gplates allows for 4 decimals. Is there a way to change the slider to show more decimals? And added on top of that question: is there a way to expand the functionality of gplates to go beyond 4 decimals or above 10 000 Ma?
This is purely a functionality question to see if I need to make a second project using a multiplier or if it would be possible to somehow do it in 1 project. My reasoning for it is specifically me wanting to add several major events similar to big asteroid collisions, which would happen in a few days rather than a few million years, but still effect things on that scale, so it would be nice to be able to go into that level of detail for the collisions but dealing with the aftermath on the normal gplates timescale.
not sure whether there’s a secret setting, but in the Configure animation menu, you can only set 2 decimals. So that seems to be a hardcoded limit.
And if you try to change the max slider age in the preferences it allows only ages up to 9999 - anything higher get automatically reverted to that number. However, the animation default_time_increment can be set to much higher number of decimals - it looks though as if this doesn’t affect the GUI elements and I am not sure whether this actually gets used - for @john.cannon to answer.
Hi, thx for the reply, but I’ve actually tried. Anything beyond 4 digits seems to get reset to 4 digits (or I might have done a mistake there).
I’m aware this has been made in python so my guess has always been that 4 digits is the most accurate they can keep it? Just a thought, not based on anything outside of knowledge that floating point gets wonky and even integers have a limit to size, but like I’ve said, it’s just a guess
I really hope there are options cause I have seen that the earthbytes dataset goes into -250 in the rotation file and I also have no idea how to use that
