New Components window

In Layout's Utilities tab, there's a window new to 2020. The Components window shows components for LightWave, the current scene, for items in the scene or surfaces, images, nodes, and Graph Editor Channels.

Components are a new addition to the LWSDK. They are containers for data and functionality, very much like plugins themselves.  Each component is a plugin instance. These plugins differ from others in that they are supported in more areas of LightWave, including viewports, images/clips, the scene, the Layout application itself, and more. The new LWBaseFuncs LWSDK global and attributes facilitate data sharing - the possibility of communication has now been put in place, but it needs third party programmers to take advantage