Timer Chop

General TouchDesigner Discussion
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Hi,

I am a begginer and when I have to use some Chop that I never used its hard to understand.

This time I have a problem with Timer Chop. I am receiving a value from a CHOP (kinect) I would like to each 10 seconds take this value and record in a constant (to start the timer I locked to the timeline. this is perfect to my project).

Please can someone help me find a way?

best regards

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Hey mbegste,

I made a quick example of how you can use the Timer CHOP to periodically record data. It’s connected to a Noise CHOP, but by tweaking some things, you can set it to record data from a Kinect CHOP. Not sure if it’s the most elegant solution, but it seems to work alright. Would love to see any other approaches people take to this type of task.

Also, in case you didn’t know, you can find a really helpful set of example patches in the OP SNIPPETS section of TouchDesigner. To get there go to Help > Operator Snippets.

best,
Los
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Hi L05,

Amazing exemple. Thanks alot.

I will try to learn from that. I would like to share what I have done so far.

I have not learnt python yet, I will try to do so in the following weeks, meanwhile could you help me implement this in my exemple.

The objective is each 30 seconds, kinect will recognize open hand of the user, focus and zoom (pivot and grow) and take a snapshot.My problem right now is take the kinect data each 10 seconds.

Best regards
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