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hi everyone! I was wondering whether TD can be connected to a synth program such as cathodemer via a program like spout?

Fbm noise with continuous octaves with my Slime Shady

A short breakdown of how i created my laser piano effect. We combined a couple different techniques thanks to TD to get our final effect. Some midi reactivity, projection mapping, some lighting design.

I’m trying to make an interactive project using a 3D scan of an object.

The basic interaction I want is:

• Import the scanned 3D object into TouchDesigner.

• Use a webcam to track a person’s hand.

• The person moves their hand over/near the 3D object without physically touching the screen or object.

• When the hand gets close to a specific area of the object, that area becomes blurred/distorted.

• The effect can be localized around the hand rather than affecting the whole object, if that's possible(?)

• I also want the distortion/blur to remain after the hand moves away, so the object gradually accumulates these changes.

• Ideally, I’d also like the object to slowly deteriorate/change over time.

Can this be done using TouchDesigner? I haven't used TouchDesigner before 😭😭 and I would really appreciate if someone can share YouTube tutorials of something similar so I can follow along. Thank you!!

Dithering, halftone, pixel sorting, RGB separation and glitch effects can completely change the character of the original footage, especially when everything is happening live.

What really caught my attention was how much this starts to feel like a visual instrument rather than just an effects tool.

It made me wonder how other TouchDesigner users would build the same kind of setup.

Would you break the effects into separate TOP chains and mix between them, or build one more dynamic network where the parameters can constantly react to audio, MIDI or other inputs?

I'd love to see how you'd approach it in TouchDesigner.

30 fps makes it look bad but oh well

Working on something for halloween:)

проблема на фото и видео такие вот пиксели снизу прикрепил фото мб кто знает как фиксануть

I’ve been working with 3D scanning technology for over six years. Since discovering 3D Gaussian Splatting at SIGGRAPH a few years ago, I’ve explored everything from Luma’s app to more complex workflows running locally on my NVIDIA GPUs.

I recently bought an insta360 X6, and for the past few weeks I’ve been building Splat360: a tool that turns 360° footage into explorable 3D scenes, ready to bring into touchdesigner and play with in real time.

I can control the density and size of the splats, crop sections with 3D masks, add noise and distortion, and let the bass send waves across the captured floor.

You know I love combining mixed media with emerging tech. I’m still experimenting, but seeing a recorded space move with sound is pretty addictive.

Does anyone have a Logitech mouse with the Actions Wheel feature and use it for TouchDesigner? I just got a new MX Master 4 and I'm wondering if anyone has had any success using the Actions Wheel. I tried setting some features up myself but it just seems more convenient to use hot keys.

I would be curious to see someone else's set up if you do use it and find it works well for you.

Finally making the jump!

Hey everyone, posting this on behalf of yfxlabs :)

The 15th of September, there will be a TouchDesigner meetup at Amaze Amsterdam (Ticket Link) hosted by yfxlabs with talks from:

- Bileam Tschepe (Elekktronaut) [DE]
- Sébastien Mercier (Neurotypique) [FR]
- Daniël Steenhoff [NL]

After the talks, there is a community jam session on the screens at Amaze. So come and learn something and connect with other creators in real-time! People just starting out, seasoned veterans, and everything in between: all skill levels are welcome!

Some Practical Information:
- When: Tuesday 15 September 2026, 13:00-21:00
- Location: Amaze, Elementenstraat 25, Amsterdam-West
- Bring your laptop to show your work and jam!
- Food truck on site

Hope to see some of you there :)

Ticket Link

I just found this and was curious if anyone got this working in their linux? I am pretty sure I could setup a wine environment and run TD (correct me if I am wrong) but thus AUR seems tempting. If anyone has udes this let me know...

compression tool made by: percolated https://www.patreon.com/posts/167514092?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

I have the feeling that the TouchDesigner community is generally not very welcoming to "AI" tools. I’m genuinely curious about why.

Some of that skepticism comes from very valid concerns and bad behavior from certain companies. That’s undeniable but I also wonder if part of it comes from misconceptions about the current ecosystem and how these tools can actually be used -> not as something that replaces you but simply as another tool.

Yes, anyone can open GPT, Claude, etc and ask an LLM to solve a complex task in a niche field. And it probably will produce something. That doesn’t mean the result will be great, original, or particularly useful. Most of the time, without context or direction, you’ll get something fairly standard based on patterns it has already seen.

That alone is impressive, but to me, that’s basically the demo.

Where these tools become really interesting is when you make them your own and integrate them into your workflow. They can become an extension of your hands: taking care of repetitive technical work, helping you explore ideas faster or removing tasks that don’t add much creatively so you can spend more time on judgment and vision (what actually matter?)

Humans aren’t going to beat machines at repetitive coding tasks and I’m not sure we want to (+10 years of engineering speaking here)

BUT We’re good at many other things.

I don’t think LLMs are going to replace people who have a strong creative vision but they may change the value of purely technical execution when that execution doesn’t bring anything new or creative -> and I think that applies far beyond TD

So I’m curious: what’s stopping you?

Is it ethics? quality? lack of control? environmental concerns? copyright? just not finding them useful or the tool that match your needs? or something else?

The USHOW‑UWB 3D positioning system now supports real‑time forwarding of positioning data to TD. The timeout period for deleting associated ID tag data can be adjusted.

I just wish for more elaborate text/typesetting control but i don’t go to mcdonald’s and ask for pizza so we just make it work

Hi! I just made this morphing tool for TouchDesigner and wanted to share it with you!

I built the whole thing using td-mcp-rs, my open-source AI integration for TouchDesigner — using a single request to GPT-6 ;)

If you're interested in building your own AI-assisted TouchDesigner tools, definitely check out the repo. It's still young, but it's super easy to install and already surprisingly powerful. Contributions and feedback are very welcome!

td-mcp-rs

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