You could send OSC data from tounchdesigner if you need to use a Kinect 2, but im sure there are ways natively in unreal too.

Yes it’s honestly any mocap that gives you hip and hands will work actually. Kinect One I think it’s V2. There stuff natively, but it’s harder to setup and you have to import a whole skeletal mesh and select the joints you want manually.

Well not usually, it’s always better to do everything in one machine so there’s less points of failure. But one time I had to do a weird project where one low end PC just running Unity for the touchscreen 2D UI and the large LED screens driving Unreal Engine graphics. There I did use USB dongle method.

I meant Kinect One, which should be V2 that you mention. The firmware and SDK is also for V2, not V1. I just thought the official names were Kinect 360 and Kinect One. So you are good to go.

You actually don’t have to enroll to see if it would work actually. If you can complete Chapter 1a and 1b (which are free), you can continue with the rest of the course.

Obviously keeping in mind to stop iterations at a certain point

This is called "Reverse Engineering' for a reason, it's more of a self studying series, I give you explanation of likely what's the hardest and most important pieces of code and the rest you figure out yourself, which should be relatively easy if you've been taking all the full courses I offer.

just buy it bro. penny pinching in the comments is not a good look.

Well, for Windows it's most compatible, less hassle and I know for a fact the PS5 controller, it's harder to actually make use of the adaptive triggers and etc.

Well I haven’t used ZigSim in a while and I didn’t know this existed. But I’d look if there’s a Get Float node, could there be a Get Double? You have the whole nodes search tab you can look at see what the possible receive types are. There’s Get All XYZ, that returns an array too. I don’t have my laptop now to see it so I don’t know. If you couldn’t find anyone in a forum who has figured it out on the internet then it might be a new thing.

Well I guess there are several ways, the pros would probably add in an attribute to the polygons before spawning and make sure the vellum geometry carries over and you use that as a way to set IDs for each emitting band and you could easily Blast and ‘delete non selected’. Also I feel like you could probably just use “For Each Connected Piece” and enable the view single iteration mode. But I haven’t been using Houdini much lately, so that’s all I can think for your solution!

Well with FL, probably better to use MIDI plugin. I should make a tutorial for that. Then Udemy is just a gateway into Patreon, they take 63% cut on each sale! Crazy right?

Not sure, because MaxMSP was part of 2 of my Uni classes. So I know how to use it from that. But I’ve watched some good videos, they usually have clean nice looking thumbnails 😂

Could you reiterate what you’re asking for? This is a tutorial, but it’s part of a larger course that is only available in the membership. There you will see how the rendering works.

@@YFJSR That's good news. I have found some latency in the rendered output when using OSC (specifically referring to the lack of synchronization between the signals sent by TouchDesigner and Unreal during rendering). If TouchEngine can eliminate this issue, I am very interested in becoming a member. Thank!

​@@htcjustineng1741 The latency is too much, this is why within my circle too we don't use TouchEngine yet. To be honest, I made this course for a specific reason, to get Derivative to promote my work for using their new feature 😅

@@YFJSR so you think is not ready yet for real time public visuals?

@LANworldArchive well I haven’t used it in a while, could be a lot better now. I think it’s a little early to replace the OSC and Spout workflow people use now.

Indeed, a little update from my side, not just the NTRCT courses stuff!

Of course, all with Blueprints. If you're asking how to develop ideas, yes certainly I do sketch visual ideas and plan the logic on paper, before beginning implementation.

@@YFJSR yes. Not unreal blueprints lol literally blueprints like schematic lol.

I am planning on a technically simpler course, where I cover that exact process. It’s basically what we normally get taught in 1st year Computer Science, but repurposed for interactive development.

@@YFJSR ooo that is awesome is it going to be on patreon?

Well OSC is a network protocol that works on IP addresses and port number. Bluetooth is a different kind. Maybe there could be other ways that allows you to interface via Bluetooth.

This is covered in Chapter 5 of previous course, Season 2 Project 1. That’s only in Patreon, but yes you can get amplitude/normalized gain of a channel in MaxForLive.

Sure thing, there are many TD or Max and Ableton artists, but not too many to chat to for UE5 + Ableton!

Not sure! I don’t do offline rendering anymore, but it seems it is still popular now, but back when I was using it, I liked how clean the render was and many parameters you can use to reduce noise. Nowadays, you can also use it on Apple Silicon and I’ve heard friends who’ve switched to macOS to work at a cafe unplugged.

Sorry! Famous problem, when you start to master a tool you start working in muscle memory, so it didn’t occur to me that people wouldn’t know about the OSC port number clashing. Thank you for bringing it up. But I’m happy that you had to check 3 times, that’s not bad at all, if you start developing your own code, don’t be surprised if you get stuck on a simple problem and feeling like you wasted 1-2 hours without making much progress. This is the way.

Omg I think that's me hahaha.

That was it, works perfectly now

This will be very much a foundations course, the minimum you’ll need to start creating visuals.

Don't undersell that. Figuring out even this much is not trivial. It took me 2 hours to actually implement the video, and even still I am not seeing an actual response. Is there a Patreon discord? This space is what I'd call bleeding edge and not well served.

@jmfreeland sorry I forgot to explain the OSC port number clashing part. Not sure how it took you 2 hours for a 30 mins video. But if I don’t explain some things, it’s by design. Many people I met in person who’ve taken the courses always say how streamlined the videos are and that’s because I choose not to re-explain stuff covered in prior courses. So really I recommend most people to start from the beginning!

@@YFJSR no apology necessary! It only took so long because I have no muscle memory or familiarity with the tools yet. you underestimate how quickly you're able to work with them. hopefully I will spend enough time with UE and Max to work at the same pace. I spent 20 minutes figuring out how to draw a button in Max and how bang worked lol.

@@jmfreelanddon't worry it's always like this for everybody :)

It’s also very much an experiment for me, interested to see if the interactive stuff or audiovisual stuff takes off more.

Yes they are available on Instagram. I’m just getting started, so I haven’t done any performances. Although I already have some opportunities lined up for 2025!

Thank you for the kind comments! Definitely feel lucky to be able to single-handedly push the boundaries!

Yes I’m finally back after half a year! Glad you’re still subscribed!

I think I mention that this is the best purchase on the Unreal Engine Marketplace. The”purchase” suggests that it is a paid plugin! So of course it won’t come by default for free! You can follow the course without it though.

I’ve just used the plugin for a personal project and it doesn’t look like you can control and set the parameters for each instance of the cloned meshes, so it wouldn’t be possible to do it without TouchDesigner.