In any interactive installation environment there are plenty of way to get user input / data that will drive your visuals and give the audience the feeling of connected-ness with your … Continue reading Tracking People in TouchDesigner with OpenPTrack and Point Clouds
Changing tack a bit to create a interactive game using this system. Unity is a perfect platform to build this in and I have plenty of resources to make the … Continue reading City Infrastructure Game – Town Preview
This has been asked for a lot – I figured I would post the content in an easy to reach spot. Included in the zip file is the .TOE and … Continue reading Rigged Kinect Mesh for TouchDesigner
Project overview While studying for my MFA at Arizona State University, I was a research assistant for Christian Ziegler. We were working on the next step in his research on … Continue reading Forest3 Software Suite
This week I am going to start diving head first into some back end development for this experience – but first I wanted to play a bit with realism and … Continue reading Playing with some realism
Here I will log my process in creating an 3D interactive story telling environment which utilizing room-space AR as the primary tool of design. I will be posting progress updates, … Continue reading Starting the project.
Here is a video where I go over some basic methods of generating realistic textures from a single image. I go over the Phong MAT, normal map, and a basic … Continue reading Realistic Textures in Touchdesigner
This tutorial will help you leverage Blenders physics engine to create complex 3D animations quickly. It will also walk-through programmatic solutions to deal with texturing and playing back those animations. … Continue reading 3D Content Part 3: Simulating Physics in Blender to TouchDesigner
Here is a useful workflow for creating complex/timeline based animations in Blender 2.7 and importing them into TouchDesigner. This tutorial will take you through UV mapping/editing to easily line up … Continue reading 3D Content Part 2: UV mapping and Importing Animations to TouchDesigner
Hey all. If you’re like me and don’t have enough money for a LIDAR scanner but need to make precision 3D models for projection mapping or content creation, here’s a … Continue reading 3D Content Part 1: Camera Mapping
EDIT: This is now way easier to do from within TouchDesigner using the Threaded Web Comp here: http://derivative.ca/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=9164 . Tutorial to come soon. OH BOY! This one is going to be exciting! … Continue reading Twitter in TouchDesigner
Recently I have been using Touchdesigner to make theatre. Touch is great because it lets you quickly edit content in real time and move along in the tech process, however … Continue reading Building tools to make programming easier – GOTO Cue
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