Instancing Geometry in TouchDesigner

This beginner level TouchDesigner tutorial covers instancing with the Geometry COMP, a technique that lets you copy one piece of geometry many times in an efficient way. To accomplish this we go through various methods for generating and manipulating CHOP data to represent position, rotation and color values. Instancing is a flexible tool that is useful in a variety of applications. This tutorial provides a starter network that can be used for further explorations.

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Topic Timestamps:

00:12 Intro

01:43 Building the “capsule” geometry

06:15 Setting up the render network and SSAO

09:01 Generating a grid of instances

12:33 Noise TOP to CHOP conversion

16:09 Adding rotation and translation with noise

20:27 Refining noise and adding motion

21:06 Coloring with the Lookup CHOP

24:50 Variations for exploration