More precise methods of saving heat values?

  • Webdude53
    7th Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    Greetings and Salutations.

    I realize that this is something that might not usually come up over the usual course of a creation proccess, but I now find the need to somehow have a method of doing this.
    Is there any way for one to be more precise with saving the heat values for particles?


    For instance, if I had a particle which was at the temperature value of 104.85, would there be a method of saving the decimal points, instead of just keeping the value without the proceeding numbers (Which would be 104.00).

    I was hesitant to post this because there would be a rather limited field of uses, but I figured that I might as well just see what could happen.

  • m_shinoda
    7th Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    @Webdude53 (View Post)

     Im not really sure what you're asking for but i'll reply anyway.

     

    When I need to set wifi/prti/o tmp's, I use the property tool and type in the tmp I need with the last digit repeated twice after itself. NOTE: Since these tmp values are dependent on the temp you have to use the temp queery when you set the numbers. 

     

    Formally this would be done like this.

     

    If the tmp you need to get is 65:

     

    >PROP

      -temp

      -6555

     

     

     

    EDIT: this won't work if the digit to be repeated is 7. Im not sure why this is.

  • Webdude53
    7th Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    While that was not the main point of my post, that's something that would be very useful to use.
    Thanks!
    (Just to clarify, I was talking about saving the decimal points of temperature values when saving something.)

  • m_shinoda
    7th Dec 2012 Member 0 Permalink

    @Webdude53 (View Post)

     In the current release version you can change the decimal units by holding CTRL while you change temperature. If you hold CTRL before changing the temperature the numbers will change faster. 

  • jacob1
    7th Dec 2012 Developer 0 Permalink
    I don't know why people are so confused by what he's saying...

    there are two possible formats for saving heat. If it's between 22C and 149C, it uses only one byte to save heat. If not, it uses 2.
    It saves it as an int though. It would be nice if it was more accurate, maybe I could ask Simon. It probably doesn't have many uses to be more accurate though. It might have been done for a reason.