Noise Displacement in TouchDesigner

This beginner level TouchDesigner tutorial covers using the Noise TOP to generate vertex displacement effects within the Phong MAT. It also touches on how to create a render network from scratch, recoloring with the Lookup TOP, and adding post-render shading with the SSAO TOP.

In the article linked to below I discuss these topics in more depth. If you have questions, comments, suggestions or corrections please leave them below, and thanks for watching and reading!

https://www.simonaa.media/tutorials/noisedisplacement

Topic Timestamps:

00:12 Intro

01:31 Setting up the render network

06:12 Normal, color and height maps with noise

13:12 Coloring with the Lookup TOP

15:09 Adding motion to noise

16:33 Exploring noise parameters

17:50 Noise coordinate map input

22:55 Adding detail with the normal map

25:30 Changing camera angles

26:50 Changing geometry input

28:50 Screen Space Ambient Occlusion TOP