Growing Trees

[Dan Park]

It looks like there is a discrepancy in the growth when a slider is placed directly to 0. Try placing the slider slightly over 0 to see the effect.

Also there is a setting in each plant that states what it's starting age is. If you lower the slider below this age the plant will not continue to shrink. If you edit the plant so that the image is smaller than the starting age it will grow but then when you move it back it won't shrink all the way.

We used a simplistic algorithm to show this so that you can easily return the plan to the original state. Check each of your trees and see what the starting age is. This will determine how small the plant will get as you slide the slider to 0. The height at maturity controls how tall the tree will get. If you were to size the tree larger than maturity and then start using the slider the plant will likely shrink in size at some point causing confusing results.

Your suggestion of having different images for different aged plants is a good one but is more complicated to produce and is more than our underlying system can handle at this point. It is something we have logged in our database for future development.