Right now i think a user can develop it's own components but i guess it's not very user friendly, you've got to use the same tools as if you where developing a plugin.
Nevertheless, they said that the 'clusters' where going to be redesigned from the ground up. Hopefully, they will probably be able to behave more like second tier components. I second the idea of this 'gallery' of user created clusters when this becomes available. I once proposed that grasshopper could have two levels of components, a few (fewer than there are actually now) 'core' components and the rest second tier components created from the core components that could be edited in the grasshopper canvas (i don't think David liked the idea though). On Jan 9, 4:35 pm, Marc Syp <[email protected]> wrote: > HI all, > > I have been following this list for a while now and I am impressed > with the number of people developing elegant solutions to problems > ranging from the simple to the complex. One thing I like about > Grasshopper is that it usings a signal-processor interface logic that > is nearly identical to Max/MSP, an audio/visual processing app that > has been around for a long time and has a dedicated following. > Indeed, I've seen that people are beginning to interface these two > programs together, which I find incredibly exciting. > > I'm writing because one thing I've seen in the Max/MSP community is a > huge number of user-defined patches or "components" that are found in > various internet clearinghouses. In Max, you can "encapsulate" an > entire patch solution into a single component, as you can do in GH. > It seems that there is an opportunity to do the same thing here. I > know there is a file section here, but I was thinking about something > more like vraymaterials.de, where you upload an encapsulated GH > component with a description, and the user community has an > opportunity to dl it, rate it, tweak it, so that the most useful float > to the top... what's more, it could be searchable and be constructed > with a number of categories (Geometry generation, Data management, > Sorting, Math, etc)... > > Is this a crazy idea? Too much work? Already exists? > > Thanks, > Marc
