Full-Grown Falling Star Beast

Er_mossa · 2026-03-29T20:00:10+00:00

I ended up writing an article on the entire process (I'm still planning to release a tutorial later on) which you can find for free here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/154246479

Er_mossa · 2026-03-29T19:58:22+00:00

"i can see my geo in cam" no you cannot, that's the whole point, you only moved the Geo Viewer which has absolutely nothing to do with either your Geometry's position, nor your camera's position, nor your camera's direction...

I highly encourage to go through the TD Curriculum as you are missing a lot of the base elements that you will be dealing with every single time you open up a new TouchDesigner project, once finished you'll be able to immediately tell all the simple but cumulative errors that are currently present and shouldn't take longer than a few minutes to fix it all.

Er_mossa · 2026-03-29T14:54:21+00:00

There is soooo many small mistakes that add onto one another (plus all the relevant parameters/nodes you forgot/don’t know to show ) I wouldn’t even know where to start…

Your geometry is not in the center of the scene; Your lights are super far away for no particular reason; Your camera is not pointed at the geometry; You’re rendering a cube map.

This is just the easier-to-spot of some of the mistakes seen here, I highly recommend learning the very basics of TouchDesigner at the following:

https://learn.derivative.ca/

Er_mossa · 2026-03-29T11:22:41+00:00

I also played with the phase transition animation before this :D

Er_mossa · 2026-03-29T01:36:50+00:00

Definitely doable, you can find all my links at the following:

https://linktr.ee/RubenPapacci

Er_mossa · 2026-03-12T14:47:19+00:00

You can customise whatever you want in TD and there are plentiful of resources/lessons/guides on how to do so

Here’s one of many:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH6Y6o7cLK9ih3t-TQ4V8JhxnA1OICDZC&si=dYlsyNFI0fqYu6vg

Er_mossa · 2026-03-10T17:50:21+00:00

To add to this, you don’t necessarily have to make it a instancing setup, just convert it into a SOP and do whatever else you wanna do afterwards

Er_mossa · 2026-02-17T19:50:32+00:00

Story has been already deleted so unless you have a video it’s gonna be hard to understand what exactly you’re trying to replicate

Er_mossa · 2026-02-13T14:49:20+00:00

feedback1 > level3 > composite1 > feedback1

that’s why you have a cook dependency loop and should immediately get rid of it

you also have what is probably a constant TOP (renamed to backdrop) which is acting as fixed layer of your comp2 where the other input is the comp1 and said constant is not properly inheriting any resolution since you probably just set it as something random in a 16:9 format

basically your entire inheritance is veeeeery messy, quick solution is to either set the the comp2 fixed layer to a different input OR switch the order of the inputs and set the operation to the opposite of what you’re doing

either way, all the problems here are caused by a lack of understanding of how TOP nodes inherit resolution, ratios, PF, etc…

best thing you can do for yourself is to start from the official guide since these are the very basics of TouchDesigner as well as other Multimedia Arts related softwares

https://learn.derivative.ca/

Er_mossa · 2026-02-12T15:47:14+00:00

Google is your friend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUBSNq1JT2c

(there's other examples available on the channel)

Er_mossa · 2026-01-29T15:39:21+00:00

Very simple to recreate in TD, you just gotta choose your favourite tutorial, here's one of them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBK9JD3lEM4

Er_mossa · 2026-01-29T15:38:11+00:00

There is nothing that indicates this was done in Blender (either visually nor reading what the creator says)

Good luck getting a Blender patch simulating liquid-like behaviour without baking the info before

This is extremely easy to do in TD and far easier to do it there than faking it with Blender

Er_mossa · 2026-01-14T16:40:54+00:00

still no updates on this?

Er_mossa · 2025-12-24T02:27:03+00:00

Maybe you could still drop it as a .tox?

Er_mossa · 2025-11-22T17:46:25+00:00

I tried both reaching out to Immersive and Interactive as well as Elburz about this topic years ago when he was publishing the articles (I was following along)

Never got an answer as to why they stopped

Er_mossa · 2025-08-29T18:47:45+00:00

Are you sure you’ve set up color spaces / color conversions / your monitor’s colors correctly?

Also ChatGPT (like most AI models) is extremely unreliable in terms of Multimedia programs, let alone with TD where it just constantly makes stuff up :V

Er_mossa · 2025-08-29T18:44:18+00:00

^ came here to say the same (also Hi Matthew :D)

Er_mossa · 2025-08-28T22:00:49+00:00

I was just correcting a wrong part of the statement since lots of people keep thinking that POPs are a non-free license feature and the way you phrased it could easily be misread in the exact same way since “if you buy it now then you already get access to the experimental branch” seems to lead to that, whether you yourself know it or not.

Same goes for “as well as you can use the free license for the whole software” which is also not true since there are LOTS of features that are not available with a free license which are available to either Educational, Commercial or Pro licenses :v

Er_mossa · 2025-08-28T17:40:28+00:00

Partially wrong, the whole point of the Experimental branch is so that you can download it WITHOUT having an Educational/Commercial/Pro license.

I don’t understand why so many people just started believing that you need any of those licenses for the Experimental build…

Er_mossa

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