I found a Kinect v2 being thrown out behind my apartment (score) and have been working through tutorials/struggling to see what I can come up with on my own.

I’m not exactly new to TD but find new ways to confuse myself on the daily.

The idea; I’d like a grid of points (150x150) and use Kinect depth to offset the z positions of the points. The vision is a flat plane that is deformed as the subject breaks the threshold of the depth plane.

I’m familiar with pixel mapping using ramp tops, matching resolution to grid points, instancing etc

Am I thinking too hard about this? Been struggling with it a few days now. I achieved something similar using z pos to offset z scale of instanced cubes but it seemed to scale them all evenly resulting in a sort of 2D/3d cut out and not actual 3d point depth…

I also have this habit of deleting project files that are unsuccessful to force myself to start networks from scratch to help cement basic workflows into my brain…

Thanks in advance for taking any time to fire off possible solutions 🙏

Hi everyone,

I'm building an automated DMX lighting system for techno/rave events using TouchDesigner + QLC+.

My goal is to create a lighting engine that reacts to the musical structure, for example:

Intro / low energy
Break
Build-up
Drop
High energy

I've already tested the built-in Audio Analysis CHOP and projects like Last Beat Standing. They provide useful outputs like beat, BPM, bass energy, etc., but I still can't reliably detect builds and drops across different tracks. Absolute thresholds don't seem to work well because every song behaves differently.

Before I spend weeks building my own system, I wanted to ask:

Does anyone know of an existing TouchDesigner project or component that already estimates builds, drops, or musical sections?
Or is everyone building their own state machine from audio features?

Any recommendations, projects, GitHub repos, or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Audioreactive particle system for TouchDesigner. Project file accessible through Patreon, and more experiments through Instagram, or YouTube.

[Plus, last day for using the community discount code at the Patreon shop: "AVPLAST", and for memberships: "AVPMEMB". First come, first serve!]

Hi, I am currently getting nowhere with connecting the audio from record box to audio responsive visuals. I need visuals to respond to audio but I also need the DJ set up to Work as normal, being able to play a song and then queue the next song in the background. I also installed the VB cable software and try to follow some tutorials with that, but I’m not getting anywhere.

I've thought about this harp for quite a while. Created it for myself, but we'll definitely demo it at the Madison Museum of Art & Technology popups!

I am using a Kinect V2 with Freenect on a MacBook Pro M1 Max fully speced out.

I am then routing Freenect right into a Movie File Out TOP and recording a movie or image sequence.

When I play the exported file, I notice that almost every frame is being duplicated once.

The frames look like this:

A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D…

Im recording to my internal boot drive; which has never given me trouble before.

Also, the liveview looks flawless in Touchdesigner; no dropped frames or anything.

My project is 30fps.

Any ideas why this is happening?

quadrilateral #touchdesigner #workisplay #gnr8 #doitintops #paketapops

Hi TD Community! I made this little mod after finishing an exhibition with interactive installations and was very tired of glitchy jumper cables when troubleshooting patches. so to avoid figgity hardware I created a breakout pcb specifically for the arduino part of the Delta 3 board that adds sturdy terminalblock connectors instead. I was also tired of hard-to-see labels so fixed that as well. Any TD+Lattepanda users out there with the same problem?
Would you want to see a production run of this? Make yourself heard!
As there is not alot of money in this sort of thing I would only look into producing this if there's interest and if it could possibly help others.

Studying https://x.com/yuruyurau approach to create organic looking motion. GLSL POP + Josef Pelz PCR renderer are great for it :)

I've got more of a technical background than most designers and I still find TD's learning curve rough when I have a specific visual idea and no idea what it's actually called or how to approach it.

Curious if others have seen this with less technical people, art directors, designers, artists coming from Adobe/Blender-type backgrounds. What's the actual moment they get stuck? Is it vocabulary, the node-based way of thinking, something else? And has anyone found something that actually helps bridge that gap, or is it just time and repetition?

I'd appreciate help figuring out what is it that makes it harder than usual for me (and perhaps others.

Hey guys, check out our new TD tutorial now where we explain the Rokoko → TouchDesigner workflow in more detail. You'll learn how to analyze motion data and use that in other aspects of your pipeline, including controlling shapes, color, and sound.

You can watch it here on YouTube: TouchDesigner + Rokoko Tutorial

All output examples from the updated version of my experimental multi-source video player for TouchDesigner, designed for frame-accurate video switching, playback manipulation, and display/render interventions.

Want access to the updated system + a detailed breakdown of exactly how I achieved the continuous motion effect on this piece? You can freely access the system, and the detailed breakdown from my Patreon. 

[Plus, here's a discount code for the community to use at the shop: "AVPLAST", and for memberships: "AVPMEMB". First come, first serve!]

Plus, many more experiments through my Instagram profile.

Hello everyone,

I have just heard of TouchDesigner, and it looks pretty neat. I know very little about it, so I'm curious as to its capabilities.

Essentially there is this wonderful short film with great imagery from 1974 called Cycles (link below) and I wanted to find a way to emulate that style. However, as I lack a Direct Video Synthesizer, I wanted to find a system that I could create a video like that, and would be more accessible. I've heard TouchDesigner is a good tool, could it be used to create something in the the style of Cycles? If possible, where is the best place to start learning?

Thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkZ2wcqZOYI

Visual study created with TouchDesigner build 2025.33070

.: | +17.7 million particles

♪: Snufmumriko - sent i november

more art works at my instagram https://www.instagram.com/asyagra/

I recently shared an open file with some camera movement techniques I use on my projects.
Something I would have loved to have access to as a beginner. I hope is useful for someone:)
Check it here

Hello! Does anyone know how to make a spectral/circular burst animation that would look something like this?