Too Many Plugins?

unearthed

What do you mean by you cannot find them?

The rubies should be in your plugin folder. And AFAIK Explode2Groups.rb for instance only appears if you have a group selected; these plugins would all appear to be mainly contextual, i.e. if you're not doing the action that initiates or enables them you won't see them.

I'm running quite a basic system, and have about 60 plugins with no issues (and many of the plugins are the more complex types for topography and such).

TIG

You get gray-out in context menus if you have hundreds and hundreds of Plugins loading... BUT this is normally not an issue...

BUT you do need to understand how each Plugin works...
Do some homework... read the each Plugin's download page usage-notes before installing it manually or before you Auto-Install it from the 'SketchUcation Plugin Store' dialog - by clicking its 'More Info...' button.

Some Plugin tools are Extensions and need activating from Preferences > Extensions.
Some have Toolbars that need activating.
Many tools appear in the Plugins menu, but some appear in other menus.
Some appear in context-menus.
A few need to be run by typing a command into the Ruby Console.
Some do nothing at all on their own, but are needed to add functionality to other scripts - e.g. progressbar.rb.

In the case of:

Explode2Groups.rb == appears as 'Explode to Groups' in the context-menu if your selection is a group...
unhide_all.rb == appears as 'Unhide all elements' in the Plugins menu...
xformclone.rb == [aka MemoryCopy] appears as 'Play it again..' in the context-menu if your selection is a component-instance...

pilou

@unknownuser said:

Is there a limit on how many .RB plugins that I can run?

yes when you have too much plugins (something like 300 for me) some become on the Plugins list menu disable!
Surelly depending also of the size of your memory installed!

So it's a cool habit to make special Plugins folders! Plugins// Architecture / Carpenter etc...
Put in folder just the plugins' folder that you want and rename the original Plugins folder like PluginsTemp and your specialised folder Plugins
etc...

harvey1

Thanks, everyone. I was under the mistaken view that all plugins are listed somewhere in the main menu even if they are included in a contextual menu. That explains it.

Box

Now I'm confused, is this too many plugins or too many harveys?

Following the formula, your next username should be, Harveyone2many.