it needs to be a capture you created on your account, then you can download it from their web app

@@water__shed I understand, I thought I could download models from featured gallery Thanks ;)

have you tried it?

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yes, that is the whole point of this tutorial. you just need to format your kinect data (or mediapipe data with webcam) to the same [u, v, select] format we used in the tutorial, then wire into the render pick dat

@@water__shed cool thanks!

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you can use the filein SOP to load custom geometry (.usd or alembic works best, or bhclassic from houdini). but it will likely require some decent work to get them working, such as custom vertex shaders etc to animate your butterfly

you can check out david braun's boids tutorial for a good example, he uses a 3d model of a bird for a flocking simulation

available on my patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/pixel-sorting-in-80203006

im sure it is!

@@water__shed ill have to figure it out!

drag and drop the exported splat .ply into touchdesigner

pretty hard to say wihtout more info - check your internet connection / bandwidth is there (try over USB instead of wifi, see if this helps). Sounds like the connection might be bad. Also make sure TD is not paused and your laptop is powered, not on battery

make sure the PLY file is uncorrupted (try drag/drop into the TD network from the file explorer). if the issue persists, you can go inside the geo and replace the point file in TOP with your drag/drop point file in - should fix things

Thank you, I've made a scan with the app PolyCam and exported it to splat PLY. I imported the file in TD and it worked. Unfortunately I ran in another problem, because I don't see the colour textures. Only the colour Blue and Red. Does anyone know how to solve this? Thank you in advance. :)

@@SonicIdentifications mac or windows? blue and red probably means a glsl shader error, check in the color COMP and see if that is the problem. I think there is an issue with some graphics card drivers due to the number of inputs needed for the color shader. you could probably get around this by splitting the shader into two passes

@@water__shed Thanks, how can I split the shader in two passes? :)

thank you! glad you are finding it helpful

hahaha yes it happens wayyyy more than it should

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You're very welcome!

Thank you! Cheers!

no, that is not essential to complete the rest of the tutorial

sure, you can get that on my patreon www.patreon.com/posts/touchdesigner-01-87375603

love it! good luck

perhaps you are writing text, and not a parameter expression (make sure the second, green little check box is ticked on the left when the parameter is expanded) - see interactiveimmersive.io/touchdesigner-parameters/

@@water__shed That's what is was, thank you!

geo is a COMP

hmm, you probably need to override the built in keyboard shortcuts - might be some answers in this thread forum.derivative.ca/t/spacebar-play-disable/955/5

unfortunately i cannot say for sure. their s2 model is the higher end version I use in installations and (should) work with the same plugin, but for example their A1 model did not work for me

@@water__shed Thanks for replying, I'll let you know if it works once I receive the C1 model

@@lucaperrin please do let me know, thanks!

thank you@ im happy you found it useful. and thanks for the feedback! i have a couple older tutorials using the citibike rideshare API and a weather API that might be useful for you as well (the citibike tutorial is in a few parts and i get much deeper into the data usage side of things)

thank you so much!

Ditto!

yah the dll should be all you need for it work on another machine (assuming the new machine has the same driver / os installed, i cannot speak to machines with significantly different configurations, one .dll works for all of my PCs) can also check out the releases on the github page, there are some .dll files that might work out of the box. if not, you will need to build on your machine to generate a good .dll file github.com/thepelkus-too/SlamtecLidarTDCPPCHOP/releases/tag/0.2

@@water__shed NICE ! Thank you! I will get my hands on one in about 10 hrs, i'm so excited to test it out.

NICE! thank you.

@@water__shed Do you know what is the deal with COM's? After COM10 no port seems to work to connect to the LiDAR.

there are some limitations based on your PC as to how many com ports you have open at a time. if your ports are not closing after you unplug the device, try manually closing the ports via device manager (you can google for instructions) and / or restarting the computer

never say never :) this was using the pre-built particlesGPU actually, very little GLSL coding involved

and thank you !