#touchdesigner tutorial

TouchDesigner | The Object CHOP

The Object CHOP has long been one of the most challenging CHOPs for me to really wrap my head around. Following along with some conversations on the Facebook Help Group 1, it’s clear that I’m not the only one who has bumped their head against how to take advantage of this operator.

With that in mind, here are a few tricks and techniques that you might find helpful when working with the object…

TouchDesigner | TD Summit 2019 | External Python Libraries

Overview

Hot off the presses, the workshop video from the 2019 TouchDesigner Summit workshop on External Python Libraries is up. You can follow along with all of the materials and outline from the workshop here – External Python Libraries.

If you just want to jump straight to the videos, you can find a playlist below. Happy Programming!

Python has more and more reach these days –…

Python in TouchDesigner | Extensions | TouchDesigner

Rounding out some of our work here with Python is to look extensions. If you’ve been following along with other posts you’ve probably already looked over some extensions in this post. If you’re brand new to this idea, check out that example first. Rather than re-inventing the wheel and setting up a completely new example, let’s instead look at our previous example of making a logger and see how…

Python in TouchDesigner | Modules | TouchDesigner

There are a number of ways that we might use modules on demand in TouchDesigner. Before we get too far along, however, we might first ask “what is a module on demand?” According to the TouchDesigner wiki: The MOD class provides access to Module On Demand object, which allows DATs to be dynamically imported as modules. It can be accessed with the mod object, found in the automatically imported td…

Python in TouchDesigner | Intro to Functions | TouchDesigner

Core Concepts Functions as a concept Anatomy of a function Writing functions Calling functions Returning values Passing arguments Before we can tackle CHOP executes we need to take a moment to learn about functions. There’s a lot to learn about with functions, so we’re not going to dive too deep just yet… yet. We are, however, going…

Python in TouchDesigner | Data Structures – Dictionaries | TouchDesigner

Part 1 Core Concepts Dictionaries – a structure and a concept Looking at Dictionaries and Lists side by side What are key value pairs Retrieving values from dictionaries Retrieving .keys() and .values() Adding items to dictionaries Nested data structures A better text formatting approach with .format() (a big thank you to Willy Nolan for setting me on the right path with text formatting in Python…

Python in TouchDesigner | Data Strucutres – Lists | TouchDesigner

Part 1 Core Concepts Lists – a structure and a concept Creating lists – syntax and structure Retrieving items from a list – Syntax Adding items to a list .append() and .extend() Lists of Lists Part 2 Core Concepts Lists – a structure and a concept Why Lists matter in TouchDesigner The Channel Class – seeing CHOPs as lists The Point…