From the course: Grasshopper: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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ScriptParasite

ScriptParasite

- [Instructor] Hello and welcome. So in this video, I want to take a look at a really interesting plugin for Grasshopper. One of the most common uses for the custom components within Grasshopper is as the basis for a plugin to be developed later. So you start by prototyping right within Grasshopper within those custom coded components either in C-sharp or Python or whatever. And then you go off and externalize that, or convert that and use that as the basis for developing a full plugin using a development environment like Visual Studio. So Script Parasite allows you to externalize those custom components and work on them in an external development environment. So you can go back and forth between the two you can use the coding environment that you're most comfortable with, and it makes it a lot easier to do that conversion to actually build on top of what you've created in those little custom script components. So you…

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