Touchdesigner

• Getting & installing Touchdesigner
• Learning Touchdesigner
• Mediapipe for bodytracking in TD: No kinect needed!
• Toxes
• examples (random selection)

Getting & installing Touchdesigner

Download Touchdesigner here:

https://derivative.ca/download

Check the system requirements & download the right version. Install it as usual.

KEy

The NON-COMMERCIAL version is free to use, but has limitations on resolution.
Sing up (free) to get the keys for install.
Check in with the HKUBlackbox if you need to borrow an educational license to unlock certain possibilities. 
Check the 'enable dongle' or 'codemeter' box during the install for this. 

Learning Touchdesigner

You can learn Touchdesigner online! The community is 'small' and helpful, to get started check out these resources:

The derivative site : https://derivative.ca/learn 
https://learn.derivative.ca/ 
https://learn.derivative.ca/courses/100-fundamentals/ 

Our recommendations:
These are the TDtutorial masters, they cover a super broad spectrum and help you actually understand the basics:

Mediapipe for bodytracking in TD: No kinect needed!

Realtime Body tracking on Mac & Pc with just a webcam!

Camera's like Kinect can do body & facial tracking with infra red. You can read more about this on another one of our bookstack pages. 
But with AI, you can now also use your webcam for tracking! 

Mediapipe is Machine Learning by Google implemented through Python;
read up on the details here; https://developers.google.com/mediapipe 
And if this kind of goes above your head but you do kind of want to understand what you are doing check this out: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/mediapipe-for-dummies/ 

You can install Mediapipe on you computer and in Touchdesigner using this step by step tutorial: http://www.magicandlove.com/blog/2021/06/02/mediapipe-in-touchdesigner-6/

But, since 2023 Torin Blankensmith has developed a plugin for TD (so no separate install of mediapipe!)
Check out the tutorial
Get the latest version of the plugin on github. 
Be aware that, although this way of using Mediapipe is much easier to setup, it is a lot heavier on your system/resources than when installing the necessary libraries yourself like described above.

Toxes

On this page we'll share some custom toxes made previously in Touchdesigner by us.
And them to you Palette for easy acces. 
Beware, these are handmade, to fully understand what is happening, it is advised to re-build them yourself ;)

examples (random selection)