Dynamic Component fun

AdamB

As a bit of fun I wrote a Ruby importer of Quake levels into SketchUp. The importer marks up the ComponentInstances with DynamicComponent animations so the doors and platforms all work within LightUp. Perhaps I should check whether Quake buildings meet today's work lighting Regs..

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LightUp has an automation feature that runs Ruby functions you've attached to your model from various Events during Tourtool. They're stored in an attribute dictionary (called :lightup) on the Model and Components of your SketchUp model - there are quite a few callbacks that are supported.

Try this:

Load a model
At Ruby console type:

Sketchup.active_model.set_attribute(:lightup, 'onstart', 'puts("Starting at #{Time.new}")')

and/or

Sketchup.active_model.set_attribute(:lightup, 'onstop', 'puts("Taadaa!")')

Start Tourtool and see the messages printed on the Ruby console.

Using these functions, you could build a sophisticated experience that linked together interactions.

Other hooks are:

onreset: called for a new model
onupdate: called at 15Hz
oncreate: called for Component
onpick: clicked on Component

Pixero

Thats very cool.

pilou

Totally Amazing!