How NOT to make a mess of my groups and turn ONE step into a component for all

Hello
Happy Holiday season to all.
Several years back I made this elaborate staircase in a spiral around a pentagon.
Then I must admit as I was told later (because I haven’t addressed the issue)
that I should work as much as possible with “outliner.”
Now I am in a pickle: then I didn’t think of making my 1st segment a component
only a group then I multiplied it one by one till I had one flight of stairs
that again I copy pasted and swiveled it along the needed angle.
In my mind then, it couldn’t be a component as it was going to be multiplied in other angles.
I know now I was wrong.
Now I would like to change some colour detailing, to turn them into light emitters for UE rendering


to the very intricate like eagle wing tip inspired shape (the bending extension feathers).

But I feel at a loss on how to turn the first one into a component
and then the other groups of steps to follow the changes I would make in the first.

I just don’t want to make a mess of it now at this late stage.
If impossible, I rather hand colour one by one, which would take a day or two so I rather not.
Thank you very much

As long as they are identical groups, you can use the Groups to Components extension

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Every group will have a different definition but after doing that, the option could be save one of them and right click to the others to load the saved one.

It seems like the bulge is getting smaller as you go up the stairs, so they are not the same…
Component have to be the same internally but can be scaled on the “outside”.

Ho no it’s not its just a visual illusion its the same step repeated again and again
Thanks for your reply
Well bedankt “Tweenulzeven” :slight_smile:

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Hello
Sorry this isn’t compatible with 2019 version
I am not upgrading.
Thanks

Hello
Mmh will try to understand as I read I don’t
Are you referring to the post before yours?
Thanks

It’s possible that this extension is compatible with your version.
Sometimes devs don’t mention all compatible versions in the list…
You could try it out or ask Thomthom if it is…