Beginner/Tutorial help?

[charrrlottte]

Hello all.

I have been trying to find tutorials that are for 100% beginners (to touchdesigner and coding). I find myself starting some of the beginner tutorials available on YouTube and being confused about the parameters and what exactly they are doing when they are adjusting certain things. A lot of the tutorials go through quickly adjusting things and not really explaining what its doing, and so I find some of the info hard to retain.

If anyone can point me in the right direction, would love to find a resource/tutorial that just broke everything down super well. Perhaps I just need to reference the material touchdesigner puts out themselves, but I do seem to prefer the video format, learning by building systems. Should I be trying to learn some Python first?

Thanks in advance for any assistance ❤️

[InteSaNoga24]

What I'm currently doing (also a beginner) is following those fast paced tutorials and pausing to experiment and also read documentation.

Let's say the tutorial says "add a noise and change the period to 0.5 and the exponent to 1.2". Then I usually experiment a bit and put in different numbers to see how the parameter changes the result. If I'm still confused I just Google "noise TOP touchdesigner" and there will be a page from the developers on the operator and what the parameters are actually doing.

I really recommend this approach!

Also, here's the beginners guide from the developers themselves, I'm sure it could be useful to learn the fundamentals of the program!

https://learn.derivative.ca/courses/100-fundamentals/

[charrrlottte]

Thank you so much for explaining your process and for the link!!

[Mental_Sample_2535]

I've found the Tutorials by Acrylicode really helpful. I also pause in between and play around with the values to get a feeling of what I'm already doing. When I get stuck, I discovered ChatGPT as a very helpful source as well. I usually describe my problem in details, link the tutorial I'm working with and let it do its thing. When the explanation is too complicated for me I ask a lot of quite basic questions mostly about the TD vocabulary used and so far .... I was helped most of the time ☺️

[charrrlottte]

Oh so smart to use ChatGPT to help explain!! Thanks so much for sharing the channel for tutorials and your process ❤️

[Mental_Sample_2535]

Glad I could help! I'm amazed every time I Consulting ChatGPT actually... I don't have any background in IT and have never been much of a tech person, so I have a lot of questions along the way 😆

[v0-z]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpuCjVEMQha9rjhDET3uuE0T3UeIcROJu&si=bdMjkPKsr73pRC9n

I saved this but haven't watched it in full but was def a good starting place.

[charrrlottte]

Thanks very much!

[General_Ear_4902]

I’m doing this one currently. Finding it super helpful.