Sometimes when I paste from text, one of the plants doesn't draw; all I get is a blank box.

▪        Pasting from text can be tricky, because many different things could happen to the text. Any of these solutions might work for you.

▪        First, click Scale to Fit to see if the plant has been drawn too small. 

▪        If you're pasting from the clipboard, save the clipboard contents to a text file and try again.

▪        Look at the text that describes the plant in a text editor. Make sure the none of the lines are cut off or wrapped around. They should all have something at their ends (usually numbers) after the equals sign. Also, make sure the plant ends with the words "end PlantStudio plant". 

▪        Check to see if you have the correct line endings. PlantStudio expects to find the PC-standard carriage-return-line-feed pair at the end each line. If you open the file in NotePad and it has little squares instead of line-endings, you’ve got the wrong kind of line endings. Open the file in another text editor (like Word), copy it, and paste as text into PlantStudio.

▪        Download the most recent version of PlantStudio (if you haven't already) and try again.

▪        If none of these things helps, email us the plant and we'll help fix it. 

I downloaded a plant from your site and it doesn’t look at all like it’s supposed to.

▪        Try downloading the file again; it might have been corrupted during download. Also, see our comments about pasting from text above.

▪        If that doesn’t work, send us a copy of the plant as you downloaded it and tell us which plant you downloaded. There may be a corrupted file on the site, or we might be able to find out what happened during your download.

Is there any way to see my wizard plant before I’ve finished answering the questions?

▪        Yes. Click the last picture in the row of pictures at the bottom of the wizard – the red stop light. You will see the last page of the wizard with your plant on it. Click any of the other pictures (or the Back or Next buttons) to return to the page you were on.

Is there any other way to make a new plant than to use the wizard?

▪        Yes. You can make a plant just like the plant you made the last time you used the wizard (even if it was the last time you used PlantStudio). If you have never used the wizard before (or if you lost your settings file where the wizard information is stored), you will get a plant with the default wizard options.

Resizing a plant by grabbing the resizing square can be slow and difficult if the plant is complicated. Is there a better way? 

▪        Instead, select the plant then type Ctrl-Shift-up arrow or Ctrl-Shift-down arrow to resize the plant, or click the little arrows next to the number labeled Size on the Arrangement panel. In this way you get only one resizing (and one redrawing) per key press. 

Why do my plants shrink when I animate them?

▪        Depending on the parameters you have set, a plant can seem to shrink near the end of its life because it is allocating resources to reproductive parts you might not be able to see. See the section on how plants growHow_a_plant_grows>main for more information on this.

When I animate a plant in PlantStudio, sometimes the plant just sits there for a long time at the end of the animation.

▪        If you look at the plant's growth curve (on the Age panel), the curve probably has some time at the end of the life cycle when the plant's biomass (weight) holds at maximum. This means the plant doesn't grow anymore, so the animation seems to do nothing. If you want to make sure the plant changes throughout the animation, change the s curve for overall plant growth [General parameters: Growth curve] so that the last part of the curve is not flat. 

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