Feature Request: ColorRooms with custom data

[chris]

@MaxMarschall ,

I really think this is something that is best accomplished this using the “LB Create Legend” component. Here’s another discussion for a case where I used it to customize the coloring of face geometry:

Create Custom Legend for Constructions

Yes, this is a bit beyond what the HB Colour Face Attributes was designed to do. But there’s always a way to do what you want in a scripting interface like grasshopper. Here’s how you can get the colors associated with constructions to be constant across a model: [image] Create Custom Legend.gh (93.6 KB)

The “Create Legend” component is just much more versatile and useful compared to anything that is constrained to only rooms or faces. Sure, it takes some mastery to use but then you learn this one component and then you are set for many use cases instead of just one.

If you really need a dedicated component for coloring rooms, there’s nothing stopping you from writing your own and making your own set of specialized user object using the Ladybug Tools SDK. You can use this class in honeybee and you are 90% of the way there.