These days I’m working on projects across multiple builds of TouchDesigner. That often means that I’m switching back and forth between a latest stable and a previous stable based on the project or client. That’s all well and good, but when you’re working fast it’s easy to forget which build a project is based in… and if you update your installation with a toe file that you’ve saved in a later version you’re in for a handful of grumbles.
With that in mind here’s a handy batch script that you can use in your project directories to help you always use the right version of Touch when you’re working on projects.
rem turn off echo
@echo off
:: TouchDesigner build numbers
set TOUCHVERSION=2020.26630
:: set our project file target
set TOEFILE="project.toe"
:: set the rest of our paths for executables
set TOUCHDIR=%PROGRAMFILES%\Derivative\TouchDesigner.
set TOUCHEXE=\bin\TouchDesigner.exe
:: combine our elements so we have a single path to our TouchDesigner.exe
set TOUCHPATH="%TOUCHDIR%%TOUCHVERSION%%TOUCHEXE%"
:: start our project file with the target TD installation
start "" %TOUCHPATH% %TOEFILE%
The parts of this script to edit are the TOUCHVERSION and the TOEFILE. This isn’t perfect, but boy will it save you a headache.
