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    • RayOchoaR Offline
      RayOchoa
      last edited by

      I was wondering since so many people make plug-ins, how do you make them? Do you need a special software or what?

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      • pilouP Offline
        pilou
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        Seems that are made with a "Ruby" language πŸ˜‰

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          remus
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          Not that i know anything about this, but you also use the sketchup API which kind of lets you access the abilities of SU trough ruby, as far as i can tell.

          http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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          • RayOchoaR Offline
            RayOchoa
            last edited by

            Is there a software to make them?

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            • pilouP Offline
              pilou
              last edited by

              Any Ruby Editor, I presume πŸ˜‰
              Or any Text Editor like PSpad πŸ˜„

              You will find here all about making plugin for Sketchup! 😎

              Frenchy Pilou
              Is beautiful that please without concept!
              My Little site :)

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              • RayOchoaR Offline
                RayOchoa
                last edited by

                Is it hard making them?

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
                  last edited by

                  It's just Oriented Object programming πŸ˜’
                  As all language, you must learn it : it's not difficult and also not very very easy, just a question of time learning curve πŸ˜„
                  More you are young, more it's easy πŸ˜‰

                  Frenchy Pilou
                  Is beautiful that please without concept!
                  My Little site :)

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                  • Alan FraserA Offline
                    Alan Fraser
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                    If you want to take a deep look at a plugin, just go to your Plugins folder, right-click one and choose to open it using Notepad.
                    You can even write Rubies using Notepad, but it would be better to use a text editor that is rather more sophisticated and can automatically help with the coding. Something like Notepad++

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                      carfacole
                      last edited by

                      @unknownuser said:

                      Any Ruby Editor, I presume πŸ˜‰
                      Or any Text Editor like PSpad πŸ˜„

                      You will find here all about making plugin for Sketchup! 😎

                      Another Free Ruby editor: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/fr/site.htm

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                        azuby
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                        @rayochoa said:

                        Is it hard making them?
                        Depends on your know-how on programming and your abstraction ability. And of course it depends on Sketchup 🀣

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                        • Didier BurD Offline
                          Didier Bur
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                          @unknownuser said:

                          More you are young, more it's easy

                          @Pilou: Ah, c'est pour ça qu'il m'a fallu tellement de temps, alors ? 😍

                          DB

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                            pilou
                            last edited by

                            @Didier B
                            Mais maintenant cela a l'air d'aller! πŸ˜„

                            Now seems that is fluent πŸ˜„

                            Frenchy Pilou
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                            My Little site :)

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                              REGIS
                              last edited by

                              @didier bur said:

                              @unknownuser said:

                              More you are young, more it's easy

                              @Pilou: Ah, c'est pour ça qu'il m'a fallu tellement de temps, alors ? 😍

                              @ Didier
                              Il n'est jamais top tard pour bien faire. Je veux bien la recette pour apprendre Γ  faire des plugins pour SU en ruby.

                              @+

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                              • RayOchoaR Offline
                                RayOchoa
                                last edited by

                                now now ppls, we dont all know that language.

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                                • jujuJ Offline
                                  juju
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                                  But they do. Leave 'em be.

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    @ray: if you have never coded, you will have the attraction of the newness!
                                    That can be a true motivation! 😎
                                    But if you want an advise : begin with very small project!
                                    As all new language you must learn syntax, semantic, then algorythm, then tricks, ...
                                    so many time for integrate all this πŸ˜‰
                                    Have cool discovery! 😎

                                    Ps for the french language you can use some coll progs like this one or this other πŸ˜‰
                                    That is also programing β˜€

                                    Frenchy Pilou
                                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                    My Little site :)

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                                    • RayOchoaR Offline
                                      RayOchoa
                                      last edited by

                                      do you think it would be a good idea to ask whaat to teach me?

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                                      http://ray-ochoa.com

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                                      • majidM Offline
                                        majid
                                        last edited by

                                        i think it would be very nice if whaat provides such thing here on the forum.. πŸ˜„ ... as i saw he is a guy whit lots of talent.. great if he accepts....

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                                        • RayOchoaR Offline
                                          RayOchoa
                                          last edited by

                                          well then, Whaat if your out there i need your help

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                                          http://ray-ochoa.com

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                                            remus
                                            last edited by

                                            It cant hurt to ask, but in the mean time theres loads of stuff to help you learn ruby on the internet:

                                            Google Search

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                                            http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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