Whether you’re an expert or just getting started with interactive development, there are a lot of concepts to keep in mind around your development practice. Some of these things you might pick up quickly at the beginning of your career and others are things that you might only start to approach after you’re already an…
Cameras and projectors share a lot of similarities. For audio folks, they have a similar relationship to microphones and speakers. If you’ve got any DJ friends, you’ve likely heard of a story where they plugged their headphones into the mic jack and started yelling! Cameras and projectors take their relationship even further because in softwares…
We all know how many different software packages are out there and it can frankly paralyze people in their decision making process. In our last post we talked about TouchDesigner and Notch, and today we’re going to dive into Unity and Unreal. These two game engines have become quite popular in our industry, let’s dive in!…
Choosing what app to use for your projects never seems like an easy job. Every year it seems like there’s a new way to do XYZ and another app got a whole new set of features that make it now The Ultimate Best Way To Do Things (TM). In these next two posts, I’m going…
TouchEngine has just launched and it’s quite a big feature! It allows any application to integrate TouchDesigner .tox files into them and essentially run TouchDesigner in real-time behind the scenes. This could completely change the landscape of TouchDesigner development, and in this post I’ll be talking about how. What is TouchEngine? Engine COMP was the…
Every industry has its own sets of trick and techniques for getting things done. One of the greatest bits of fun in our industry is trying to harness everyone else’s techniques in real time! A great technique that we recently talked about in one of our HQ PRO group coaching calls is how we can…
In last week’s post we talked about syncing multiple systems and the different kinds of sync you’ll find out in the world. This includes weak sync, medium sync, tight sync, as well as hardware syncs. All of these have a time and place for using them and today we’re going to dive into how some…
When you start to build installations or art pieces that require more than one computer or more than one process running, sync quickly becomes a headache. There are so many different ways to create “sync” and even the word “sync” can mean so many different things to different people. In this post, I’m going to…
We’ve all used python global variables in our projects for years. This could take form of asset paths, computer names, parameters, or really anything! Maybe you’ve got an XML file of settings, a CSV, or even an internal Table DAT. Whatever it is you’ve likely experienced that moment when you update the variable and found…
Moving data between different families of operators is a confusing thing for even intermediate users of TouchDesigner. Operators like CHOP To TOP, DAT To CHOP, SOP To DAT are already hard enough to say let alone effectively use. Over my years of experience I’ve noticed the problem isn’t a technical one, but an understanding of…