LOPs for TouchDesigner: Installation and Setup Tutorial

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LOPs – a new family of operators for TouchDesigner that utilizes LLM intelligence as a creative toolset and enables developers/artists to interact and build with LLM models beyond the standard chat interface.

This tutorial is a step-by-step guide to installing and troubleshooting LOPs in your TouchDesigner project. We cover the initial setup, dependency installation, and how to fix known issues with some 0.1.0 operators like the MCP server and RAG tools.

pip commands:
pip uninstall fastmcp -y
pip install fastmcp==2.8.0
pip uninstall mcp -y
pip install mcp==1.9.4

pip install llama-index-embeddings-ollama

0:00 Intro
1:12 Core Installation & Virtual Environment Setup
3:21 Verifying Install Paths & Avoiding Common Errors
4:29 Setting Up API Keys
6:38 Bug Fix: MCP Server Dependencies (fastmcp & mcp)
11:12 Bug Fix: Gemini Live Tool Errors
12:27 Bug Fix: RAG Indexer & Local Embeddings (LlamaIndex)
15:31 Demo: Building and Querying a RAG Index
18:25 Demo: Using the RAG Retriever as an Agent Tool
20:14 Outro