Wow! Everyone has been super helpful here. Didier's quick work on assembling a plugin looks very close to what I remember. Silly things is I'm a Mac user and not exactly sure how to unpack the .rbs file for use as an extension. Any thoughts? Sorry for being a bit dim. I can usually figure these things out.

Didier,

Your plugin seems to be very similar to what I'm describing. However, the download only presents a .rbs file. I was not familiar with this extension so I looked it up. It appears to be a music file, often associated with ringtones? I'm a bit hesitant to open it.

Didier,

If I remember correctly, the plugin would alter both the shadow itself and the sky color. In the morning both would have a blue tint, turning more neutral at midday, then turning yellow/orange at the end of the day, and finally moving into a blue/purple at twilight. Again, it was all based on the UTC time settings and global location placement.

You could easily toggle this feature on and off within the shadow settings tray.

It was definitely a .rb extension from a long time ago.

I don't know, maybe the SketchUp team remembers this plugin despite having not created it.

Thanks for all the input and suggestions. I'll take a look at all the links.

The plugin I'm trying to find goes way back in time. I'm not even sure where I found it. I don't think it was from some of the obvious sites like Sketchucation or Smustard.

Having been a SketchUp user since it was owned by @Last Software goodness knows where along the line I picked it up. It was a silly little plugin —not complicated to use and integrated right in with the native shadow settings, but it had it's uses.

I'm looking for an older .rb plugin that would alter SketchUp's native shadows to simulate a Kelvin color temperature according to the time of day —thus, bluer in the morning and yellow/orange in the afternoon. It was such a nice little plugin that helped give SketchUp that little bit of rendering help. Does anyone remember this plugin and where I can find it?

Chris,

I just recently needed to use Shape Bender for the first time in awhile (SketchUp Pro 8); however, it keeps throwing out the progress response, "Searching for objects to explode" and never moves beyond 5% complete. Now, I've loaded many many plugins and extensions since the last time I used your plugin. Could there be a conflict somewhere? I've tried adjusting the code to your instructions, but noted no change. I know it works quite well as it works just fine in my copy of SU2014 (which has a very limited amount of plugins and extensions). Any thoughts?

Michael