<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I keep producing projection plots where the colorbar is completely devoid of ticks and ticklabels so I don’t actually know what sort of densities/temperatures etc I am looking at.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have found this tutorial: <a href="http://yt-project.org/doc/cookbook/custom_colorbar_tickmarks.html?highlight=colorbar" class="">http://yt-project.org/doc/cookbook/custom_colorbar_tickmarks.html?highlight=colorbar</a> but I’d rather just let the values be determined automatically. Currently I’m not even sure what order of magnitude I am looking at.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there a way to force yt to show a minimum number of tick marks on the colorbar? I have a feeling this questions has been answered before but the archive is still down apparently.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your help,</div><div class="">Ricarda</div></body></html>