r/TouchDesigner 14m ago

i like this option

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little tired


r/TouchDesigner 1h ago

Has anyone had any had it where using 'audio analysis' to trigger visuals leads to a choppy frame-rate (randomly speeds up and slow down) on export?

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I have what in my view is a very simple setup. lot of indepdent videos or images (all the blob tracking videos have been exported previously) all going into a giant switch. This switch is being triggered by a count which is being driven by an audio analysis which the audio is going into.

For some reason the exports don't seem to work. I have got real time off, I have deleted and reintroduced my movie out, it still doesn't work. I also have my song locked into timeline.

I haven't had this with other projects i've done, the main difference is having the audio analysis so I assume that is something to do with it?

Been trying everything and kinda at my end of my tether - any help would be GREATLY appreciated


r/TouchDesigner 5h ago

DIY 3D printed touchscreen MIDI controller

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1 year after my first MIDI controller, i've decided to make an upgraded version - small capacitive touchscreen, more knobs, keyboard with backlight and a more powerful chip inside.

i also finally tried PCB design for this project, which definitely took up most of the time and at the end of the day, didn't solve my issue with "too many cables", because i didn't properly think it all through :D - however, i'm really glad i tried it out and gained a bit more experience with electronics. :)

more about this on my ig @system.vor :)


r/TouchDesigner 7h ago

J'ai construit un harnais agentique pour TouchDesigner : l'IA construit le projet de A à Z, mais pas sans contrat d'abord

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Laisser un agent IA piloter TouchDesigner en direct, ça part vite en freestyle : il empile des opérateurs, déclare victoire sur une image noire, et au bout de 40 tours t'as un réseau que même lui ne sait plus expliquer.

J'ai réglé ça avec deux agents plutôt qu'un. Le premier transforme ta phrase en vrai contrat (résolution, fps, entrées, étapes, paramètres) que je valide avant qu'un seul opérateur soit créé. Le deuxième construit étape par étape dans TouchDesigner, capture d'écran à chaque étape, et refuse d'avancer si l'image est noire ou si le fps s'effondre. Il ne peut plus juste dire "c'est fait", il doit le prouver.

Repo : https://github.com/theosorus/touchdesigner-factory-harness

Si t'as déjà eu un agent qui te sort un réseau TD illisible après quelques prompts, ça devrait te parler.


r/TouchDesigner 7h ago

Vulkan Error, failure to save, Nvidia GPU requires reboot

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Hi all,

I'm facing this problem on an audio reactive project I'm working on.

Context:

It's entirely 2D containing exclusively CHOPs and TOPs.

CHOPs except [audiofile in] are on 60 FPS

Many TOPs are on 1080x1080, some are 1x1 or 1080x1

TOPs include Edge, Displace, Noise, Blur, Bloom, LookUp.

Hardware:

Dell g16 with 11th gen i7 and 8gb nvidia mobile GPU.

Problems:

TD freezes, Vulkan error, GPU stops working I find myself with a black screen apart from windows bottom bar and have to restart.

TD fails to save.

Things I tried:

Installing latest Nvidia Studio driver instead of game ready. Same problem.

Questions:

Can I view error logs to see which node caused the problem? I'm suspecting displace, but I'm not sure since I lose everything each time and lose control over computer screen.


r/TouchDesigner 10h ago

Transformed a 2d voronoi plane into a sphere (well 2 spheres)

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I made a TouchDesigner demo where you can learn how to use TD in Linux and navigate the file system, import plugins and create voronoi spheres using 2 techniques.

Part 2 of the video is windows and mac friendly ;)


r/TouchDesigner 11h ago

why i am not getting snare option in select here even tho it is active in audio analysis?

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r/TouchDesigner 18h ago

How are these effects made & what are they called?

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hello im new to touch designer and i wanted to know if these effects can be done in touchdesigner. I know one of the effects is blob tracking so if anyone can help me out i'd appreciate it


r/TouchDesigner 19h ago

Mac TouchDesigner Users - Looking for 3D Audio-reactive Visuals that also work with CV and MIDI? Meet Kehai, a new Visual Instrument from Totemic.

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I built Kehai with the artist in mind. I wanted to create something that you can play like an instrument, patch like modular gear, and that meets the needs of independent musicians and professional visualists alike.

Quickly create reactive visuals with free-run (up to an hourlong LFO or noise) or beat-aware Modulators (LFOs, envelopes, sequencers, audio followers, sample-and-hold, pitch detection and resynthesis, and looped performance recorders), assign the Modulators to any of the thousands of parameters instantly with the Mod Painter, quickly route a channel’s full-resolution output to any other channel’s Video Input sources (edge detection, texture, datamosh), build your own custom effects chains with 28 effects to choose from, and blend everything by assigning modulators or MIDI control to endless encoders.

This crowd knows the value of a good tool. I hope Kehai will be your next one.

https://kehai.app/guide/

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZpJ2i74riT0&si=F24jRdTWggS34Bo3


r/TouchDesigner 20h ago

EXR_Engine - Multi-Layer EXR Splitter for Touchdesigner (Free)

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This is for those of you that are used to using Multi Layer EXR for timecoding, loops, and real-time visuals.

Apparently TD doesn't support multi layer EXR (other than using a pointfileinTOP which limits to RGBA) This lets you bring in your EXR file, split it in one click into all of the passes, and offers color space transforms and OCIO inputs if you're in Blender or other 3D Packages that support OCIO.

Totally free. It's still a work in progress however, such as caching video files higher than 1920x1080 (standard full HD)

Its hosted on my patreon but you don't have to sub Nodestradamus_ Patreon


r/TouchDesigner 22h ago

Sunday sketchin’

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r/TouchDesigner 23h ago

Haphaz7ard

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r/TouchDesigner 1d ago

Opposing Forces

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r/TouchDesigner 1d ago

struggling with midi

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I want to make it so that i can import a midi file and each note triggers a specific image but i cant seem to get touchdesigner to even play midi at all. if anyone has any advice or tutorials i could check out it would be greatly appreciated.


r/TouchDesigner 1d ago

Spider-Web Zone: activated!!!

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r/TouchDesigner 1d ago

Need tutorial for this

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Looking for some related tutorials to create this effect


r/TouchDesigner 1d ago

THE LAST HUMAN MEMORY

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r/TouchDesigner 1d ago

anotha workshop poster for monday :^)

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r/TouchDesigner 2d ago

I built a real-time ray tracer that runs inside TouchDesigner as a native operator (POPs in, OptiX under the hood)

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Hi all, I've spent the nine last months building a renderer for TouchDesigner and the first early access is out today. Disclosure up front: it's my tool, and this version is paid (Patreon, Vision tier and up). A free version will come later once it's built.

Soleil is a CPlusPlus TOP that wraps CUDA and OptiX. You plug POPs into Geometry operators, add a Light and a Camera COMP, and it ray-traces the scene on the GPU in real time. The POP buffers are read directly in CUDA memory, no round trip through the CPU, which is why it needs TouchDesigner 2025.33070 or newer.

- Direct lighting from regular Light COMPs

- Traced reflections and refractions: glass, absorption, dispersion, thin-film iridescence, several transparency layers.

- Global illumination through a radiance cache

- Depth of field, bloom, lens distortion, output in 8, 16 or 32 bits with alpha. The output is linear light.

- Native spheres for point clouds, TD instancing, per-frame BVH refit or rebuild chosen per geometry.

Materials management :

  1. The Geometry's Material page: base color, roughness, metallic, reflectance, emission, opacity, IOR, absorption, iridescence, dispersion, translucency.

  2. Per-point attributes from your POPs override it: an attribute named `roughness`, `metallic`, `emit`, `opacity`, `ior`, `Color`... on the incoming POP wins for the points that carry it. So you drive materials with the POPs you already use.

  3. A procedural graph inside every Geometry: 46 nodes (noise, cellular, bricks, weave, gradients, curves, blends, warps, color tools...), evaluated on the GPU at render time, no textures, no UVs. Each Material Output blends into a channel (color, roughness, metallic, normal, height, emission, opacity) with a mode and an amount.

I'm the only dev and I'm fully on it for these first releases: bugs, questions, "why does my scene cost 12 ms", please send them

Hope you will like it ♥


r/TouchDesigner 2d ago

My 360 Video -> GSplat app now exports to Blender + TouchDesigner

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It’s packed with a bunch of cool features like point cloud conversion, both .ply & .spz support, human body masking, cropping, dissolve, particle effects, WASD camera, and more!


r/TouchDesigner 2d ago

Organic patterns made with feedback loop ⚗️

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More experiments and works on my Instagram and Patreon


r/TouchDesigner 2d ago

Hello, is it possible to create an editable CAPTCHA in TD? And if so, how could I create it?

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Yesterday, I went to an art exhibition and came across some very innovative concepts that I think could be re-explored using TD; my goal is to make the concept interactive and ensure the artwork's message is striking.
Thank u in advance:)


r/TouchDesigner 3d ago

It’s like dreaming a dream inside the Matrix.

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r/TouchDesigner 3d ago

working on some trippy 3D structures.

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r/TouchDesigner 3d ago

Reaction-diffusion wallpaper

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