The overarching project I am trying to do is have people draw a drawing, scan the drawing, and then they can see their drawing in the projection and perhaps interact with it. A bit like TeamLab’s SketchOcean if you’ve seen it.
Basically I am trying to add a new image into TouchDesigner (as a moviefile or smth). I already have a python script that detects the image and removes the background, then moves it into another folder. I know you can use folderDAT to monitor for changes and select new files. This image will then be animated and composited into one big scene which will be projected onto a wall and can be interacted with. I have the hardware already for this project (kinect v2 and a powerful computer). How possible is it to have the images load into TouchDesigner, animate them, and then add them into a scene? Would I need to use something like Unity instead and send over data to TouchDesigner?
You can combine a Folder DAT with a Replicator COMP to let it create a new Movie File In TOP for every new image file that arrives in a Folder.
See examples for Replicator COMP in Help→ Operator Snippets.
Combine that with Geo Instancing to let it animate each instance (see examples for Geo Instancing and using many Movie File In TOPs as textures in Operator Snippets)
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