Interoperability
The devices, protocols and software tools that TouchDesigner interfaces to, via native Operators and Palette components.
TouchDesigner supports a wide range of devices, protocols and external tools that interface via their respective Operators, Palette components, and TouchDesigner Python methods, also known collectively as Interops.
Video Capture and Output Cardsedit
Blackmagic | Bluefish | AJA | Datapath | Point Grey | Windows Media Foundation | Deltacast | HD-SDI 3G/12G/4K/8K
IP Camerasedit
see Video Device In
Movie File Codecsedit
Many codecs supported by FFMPEG | H.265 H.264 | HAP and HAP Q | NotchLC | EXR | GoPro Cineform |
Video Streamingedit
Newtek NDI with audio | H.264 and HLS/DASH Streaming | RTMP | Syphon and Spout | RTSP | SRT | ZIGCAM from iPhone |
DMX-Based Protocolsedit
Audioedit
ASIO | DirectSound | macOS Core Audio | Dante | MP3 AIFF WAV | LTC TimeCode | OpenVR |
Abletonedit
Environment Scanners and Trackingedit
Kinect Azure | Intel RealSense and Cubemos | Face tracking | Stype camera tracking | FreeD | Leap Motion | Hokuyo Scanner | Ouster LIDAR | NatNet OptiTrack | Sterolabs ZED tracking camera | BlackTrax | PosiStageNet | Leuze ROD4 | Kinect Classic |
Graphics Languagesedit
GLSL | Compute Shaders | OpenGL | CUDA | C++ Custom Operators |
Materials and Renderersedit
Virtual Realityedit
OpenVR | Vive | Oculus Rift | OpenVR Audio |
3D Scene Dataedit
Physics and Dynamicsedit
Bullet Rigid Body Dynamics | NVIDIA FLow | NVIDIA Flex |
Network Protocolsedit
Web Browser and Toolsedit
Embedded Chromium/CEF Renderer and Browser | WebSockets | Socketio | Web Server/Web Client |
Projection Mapping and Calibrationedit
Vioso | Scalable Displays | kantanMapper | camSchnappr | projectorBlend | stoner | Lens Distortion |
Unreal Engineedit
Python and Filesedit
Lasersedit
Laser | EtherDream | Helios DAC | Pangolin |
Arduinoedit
Arduino | Firmata | Serial Ports |
Controllersedit
MIDI | Joystick | SpaceMouse |
Internet of Thingsedit
MQTT IoT |
Multi-Touchedit
Windows Multi-Touch | TUIO | TouchOSC | ZIG SIM
Open Software Systemsedit
OpenCV | openFrameworks | numPy |
Image, Color, Textedit
Photoshop Live | SVG (TOP and Web Render TOP) | OpenColorIO | Slug Font Rendering |