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TopToMidi RELEASE! Sonify your visuals!

Finally TopToMidi sees the day!
IMPORTANT: On Mac systems it doesn't work out of the box, will have a workaround soon. Also make sure you are using the latest TD version!

Join the live st...

I'll share my TopToMidi tool at the TD Roundtable organized by The NODE Institute

July 13th! I haven't shared much about it yet, but it's gonna be a real banger. Might share a preview of it as well, but it requires a bit more explanation than what I'm capable of now, so you migh...

I will be a guest on the TouchDesigner InSession stream!

July 21st! I'll be talking about my productivity tips and tricks - which many of my Patrons might know already, but will be a great overveiw of everything! I'll also be sharing my toolbar and relat...

Replace default OPs with templates/presets of your choice! (Patreon pre-release)

This is a pre-release ahead of July 21st when this becomes public, alongside many other things. Announcement to come!

Have you ever wished an operator came with different set of default param...

Instance Trails project file and .tox

For tutorial: https://youtu.be/CHCzXtnui4M

Also contains the preview for the next video topic.

Instance Trails Tutorial

Instance trails are additional instances that follow an instance. In this tutorial we build a reusable component with which you can transform  any instancing network to trailing instances. Pre...

Arduino TD Workshop today!

Hey all, today I am holding a workshop on the topic of Arduino in TD (you will be able to watch it offline as well), will be back with more content after this is done as it's been keeping me busy a...

TDinstanceUE fix for new OWL versions and UE 5.1+

Seems like there is a new feature in the OWL toolkit and you need to untick this on all receivers (I guess it's optional on the COLOR one).

Also you can now send 32 bit float textures, so fee...

Accumulate CHOP

I haven't found a simple and clean CHOP-only solution to accumulate data  on-demand (unlike the Speed CHOP which keeps accumulating on each  cook), so here is Accumulate CHOP! 

Mutually Exclusive Geometry Instancing

Sounds fancy eh? It just means that the Active flag for each Geo Instancing is mutually exclusive, meaning each instance only gets assigned to a single Geo without overlap. This is defined by the t...

(update) Random CHOP and LinkOPs going public + fixes, updates

There are some small bug fixes to the RandomNumber and LinkOPs components:

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Dear Patrons! Some thoughts:

The official TD meetup just ended in Berlin and I am left with a lot of inspiration and thoughts. I got to talk with so many amazing people it's unbelievable, and still there were many more convers...

CamSequencer update and OpSequencer release!

This video finally brings the OpSequencer (previously mentioned as AnySequencer) which allows you to use the features  of CamSequencer for any operator!

Also a big update is the Spline I...

Complex Feedback Fractals (Patrons only project file) - updated for TD2023

Here is the project file for my latest youtube tutorial covering Complex Fractal Feedbacks using ComplexOp!  Video: h...

Complex Feedback Fractals using ComplexOp + update!

There is a major update to the ComplexOp and ComplexMix!

New features:

- Every transformation now has transform order options!

- There's a new output for UV borders controllable w...

ExprHotStrings update!

With this new version your HotStrings table will sync between your projects, just make sure you update the .tox to the new one in your startup file!

Complex and Fractal news!

Hey y'all soon I am releasing a new video on how you can use ComplexOp in feedback networks to create a great variety of fractals, and with it a major update to ComplexOp and ComplexMix with transf...

Set TOP Smoothness Component

Yo! Thanks for the continued support, coming to you with a quick utility component before a new complexOp-related tutorial:
With this you can set the Input/Viewer Smoothness of all TOPs inside a...

Modifying TouchDesigner's UI with Global Volume Control toolbar and more

In this tutorial we take dive under TouchDesigner's hood, and see how we  can modify and expand the UI with our own tools. We do this through  adding a Mute button and a Volume slider to ...

Custom Toolbar in TD? Yes sure! (exclusive)

EDIT: Added Smoothness setter: dropdown sets input/viewer smoothness of selected TOPs, if you hold ALT while clicking it will set it for all TOPs inside the Component 2023-02-06 02:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post

SwapOPs (exclusive preview)

Did you ever try and swap two operators that are next to each other? It's a pretty tedious process... That's why I made this component and added a hotkey (alt+shift+s), so that you can swap two ope...

TouchOSC template for Dotsimulate's Stable Diffusion API TD component

Hey everyone,

I've been playing around with Dotsimulate's Stable Diffusion API port to TouchDesigner, I highly recommend checking it out, it's a lot of fun playing around with AI generation i...

Expression Hotstrings (public release)

Do you type absTime.seconds a bunch? So do I, and many other things. But I am lazy too, that’s why I wrote a some lines of Python code in the form of this component to save you time typing!

A lil hiatus

Hey peeps, just thought I'd shoot a quick message that my planned releases are a bit postponed since I've been sick for more than 2 weeks. Hopefully it ends soon and I can deliver some goodies.

LayerSep 2022 performance investigation update

UPDATE: After my bug report Derivative have found an issue with GLSL TOP performance, so this should be fixed in the future, yey!

Hi All, first of all Happy Holidays!

I've made a post a...

TexSampler - a more creative TOP to CHOP method

This component lets you sample textures with UV coordinates defined by SOP or TOP coordinates, leading to more creative TOP to CHOP possibilities than what you get by default. 

I will be...

LayerSep performance issues in 2022.29850

Hey, I've just opened some of my older projects in TD2022 and noticed the performance is far worse. I will look into it, but thought I'd post a quick FIY.

Working on some new stuff, thanks fo...

Discord server is up!

Hey all, thought I'd create a Discord server to have better access to each other :)

If you have Discord connected to your Patreon account you should be added automatically! Please feel free t...

Directional Motion Detection and Tracking using Webcam

You might be familiar with simple motion detection techniques in TouchDesigner using nothing but a webcam, but what if you also wanted some direction information? Using the Optical Flow and some CH...

UPDATED: Random Number TOX - simpler and more reliable way to get random numbers in TouchDesigner

If you want a sequence of random numbers you could use the Noise CHOP, set the type to Random, set its length to 1 sample and change the seed. But this is just too much effort and you are messing w...