Make a Reusable Sprite Component In TouchDesigner

Techniques
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One of the great strengths of TouchDesigner is its custom component system, where you can make powerful, reusable items.

[url=http://vimeo.com/83727413]http://vimeo.com/83727413[/url]

This video goes through creating a 2D sprite with controls for changing its image and modifying its alpha live. It will be a 3D object, so we can move it around in XYZ, rotate it, use a 3D camera get parallax effect, and more.

There’s much more we can add in the future - color control, animations, UI for stage movement, etc. What I thought would be a 5 minute intro stretched quickly into a 17 minute video, so we’ll have to save the upgrades for next time.

Project attached.
mmm_make_sprite_v1.toe (15.5 KB)

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Doh - just opened this up on another machine and it looks like I use things that are only in the Experimental release like MAT Nulls :blush:

I’ll post an update to the movie and Toe file, please let me know if there’s anything else or if I’m doing something in a silly way.

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nice one! awesome idea for festivals where there are a million artist logos to sort through :smiley:

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Yes, that would be a good use. You could automatically scan a folder and create a way to switch the logo between all the loaded artist logos, or automatically create a sprite for each one.

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Have you been able to get something like this into the “my components” section of the palette browser? Doesn’t seem to work for me.