Tutorials

In this video, Christian shows a simple and easy setup to get working with LED strips and TouchDesigner. Using just an Arduino ESP32 and WLED, you can get started with Pixel mapping and lighting up your own immersive installations.

Jack DiLaura walks you through some of the core concepts behind the new POP family of operators in TouchDesigner.

Creating content for LED sculptures can be a creative and simple process. In this video with Ben Guerrette, explore a pipeline he's used on multiple LED sculptural pieces using 2D images in TouchDesigner.

Learn how to use instancing and simple post effects to create geometric patterns in TouchDesigner. You can easily get different results by changing parameters in the patternCHOP, swapping out the instancing object or using different instancing operators.

In this TouchDesigner tutorial I’ll show you how to take the particle cloud input from a Kinect V2, filter out the points you don’t want, and add color and movement effects.

Many of the operators in the TOP family can generate interesting and surprising results when used within a feedback loop, and as it turns out the Bloom TOP is no different.

In this video, Marco shares the lessons he learned from working with a ZED 2i camera with TouchDesigner.

This new episode of my tutorials series In Just 10 Nodes, has been particularly challenging, since starting from SOPs means using at least 4 nodes just for rendering, leaving us with an extra tight 6 nodes range to develop multiple and diverse visuals.

In this tutorial we'll go over the new Shader Park plugin for TouchDesigner. It allows you to easily take your raymarched shaders that run in the browser and bring them natively into TouchDesigner to introduce things like audio reactivity, hook them up to sensors, or render out high quality video.

https://youtu.be/47Sk1aYrY3k     In this tutorial, we combine a few different techniques for some generative visual goodness—audio reactivity, optical flow feedback effects, and instancing with tops.

https://youtu.be/bkRc6CrsndI     This effect was a happy accident that came out of my experiementing with making a stipple effect using instanced force fields in TouchDesigner. I think there's a lot more that can be done with this technique so I thought I'd share!

I’ve tried doing this in TouchDesigner for years and have finally figured it out. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a particle effect that combines all three forces a flocking algorithm requires: attract, repel, and follow.     https://youtu.be/c7WElrDCHzg

In this TouchDesigner tutorial we use a different approach of texture instancing to create agamographs, basically two textures (images, videos, generated content) blended into one 3D object, creating a sort of optical illusion. We also make this interactive using face tracking.

Jack DiLaura walks you through creating a photomosaic visual effect in the style of Ken Knowlton’s pioneering artworks in TouchDesigner. You’ll utilize instancing, 2D texture arrays and image processing to achieve the effect.

Introducing TDCUBE – an innovative way to control GameCube games using TouchDesigner! This groundbreaking project emulates a GameCube controller and communicates directly with the Dolphin emulator. With its user-friendly setup, you can easily customize the trigger inputs to suit your needs.

Been seeing a few people ask about how these types of visuals are made so I put together a tutorial. Tried to keep things simple and implement a few different techniques.

Impressive GLSL particles don't have to be scary. This tutorial shows you how.     https://youtu.be/Tc0BuhlrWbM

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create stars easily using TOPs operators. This tutorial is perfect for beginners in TouchDesigner and will show you how to implement operators like Noise and Composite.

Video Tutorial on TouchDiffusion: Interactive Real-Time Generation using StreamDiffusion and TensorRT in TouchDesigner

No prior RayTK experience required! Learn how to create a twisting audio reactive ring scene using RayTK!   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn8gDnCAOlc

https://youtu.be/QSAMmW__I5Q

Hi , Ready for another round??    This time we will dive a bit inside the ui network it self. We will work a python object stored in the "ui "class and called "colors"   This object allow us to read an write value on it. Those values control the color of the TD ui it self!!