Stage lighting plug-in

[DanRathbun]

@seanoskea

I’m able to make a DC and create the fields that I need but I can’t make them unique to instances of the component. Applying component options makes those fields change for all the components.

What we need is to create a master component for a particular kind of lighting instrument–say Floodlight. And another for Spotlight, and a third for bare bulb–just to keep it simple. Then select and insert a floodlight into the model. Using the component options, I would then say that light will have its color=RED and its plug #=12 and where its pointing=stage edge. Then insert a 2nd floodlight next to it but this time the Color wants to be blue, its getting plugged into plug #15 and its going to be pointed at the middle of the stage. And then do this 20 or 30 times also mixing in spotlights and bare bulbs as well.

There is a specific forum category for Dynamic Components, and in that category is a wiki-links thread that I created for help in learning and finding information about DCs.

Dynamic Components Resources [wiki]

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You should peruse and search that category, and probably repost your previous post there along with attaching one of your problem components. Then a DC guru can look at what you attempted and find the issue.

SketchUp comes with folders “Components Sampler” and “Dynamic Components Training” of example components. There is an example “Car Sedan” component that will change color (using the DC Interact tool.) Check that one out for ideas.

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In regard to scripts for collecting attribute information, a search on the developer categories:

https://forums.sketchup.com/search?q=attribute%20report%20category%3A12